num_pages: 260
description: Pink is the first novel by film-maker Gus Van Sant, whose files include Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho and Good Will Hunting. Pink tells the story of industrial film-maker Spunky Davis and his close encounters with two strange young men whose disturbing aura attracts Spunky's curiosity - especially as one of them strongly reminds him of a dazzling young star of the infommercial world who has recently died tragically of a drug overdose. Gradually, they draw Spunky into their world, revealing to him the secrets of the Pink dimension.Pink is suffused with a grief for the temporary nature of life, for the breaking of connections, for the difficulties of coping with inconsolable loss. It is also a tale of hope and rapture - one told with the aching tenderness of My Own Private Idaho as well as the wickedly ironic tone of To Die For.
language: English
title: Pink
titlecomplete: Pink
characters: Spunky Davis
genres: Queer, LGBT, Fiction, Gay, Film
ratings_count: 349
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Oregon Book Award
category: Fiction (Finalist)
publisher: Faber & Faber