I'll Let You Go

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Twelve-year-old Toulouse Tull Trotter lives with his grandfather on a vast Bel-Air parkland estate and spends most of his time with young cousins Lucy, the girl detective, and Edward, a prodigy who was born disfigured by the effects of Apert Syndrome. One day, an impulsive revelation by Lucy sets in motion a chain of events that changes Tulland the Trotter familyforever.

Ill Let You Go, the third novel of Bruce Wagner, is a AngelinoBleak House that follows a young boy as he searches for his lost father, his beautiful, drug-addicted mother, Katrina, who is still coming down from the disappearance of her husband, and their familys connection to a street orphan and a homeless schizophrenic. A masterful, modern-day family saga about the valleys between wealth and poverty and reality and fantasy.

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"He is a visionary posing as a farceur."Salman Rushdie

If it was the promise of laughter that first drew me to Wagners work, it is his language that has kept me hooked Marveling at his comic and linguistic gifts, at his sheer storytelling verve his ability to handle large ensembles of characters and keep numerous narrative balls in the air while at the same time shooting flames from his mouth and balancing a naked lady on his nose I nevertheless introduce Wagners work to my writing students with a caution: Dont try this at home. Sigrid Nunez

"Bruce Wagner is Hollywoods master of satire."Sam Wasson, author of The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

"Wagner is the James Joyce whose Dublin is Hollywood."David Cronenberg

"Bruce Wagner writes really wonderfully about that whole milieu [of Hollywood] and its gothic vanity."Emma Cline

Im a big Bruce Wagner fan.Father John Misty

"Bruce Wagner's stories about Hollywood are the best I've read since F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West."Terry Southern

"Wagner writes like a wizard. His prose writhes and coruscates."John Updike

Author Bio

Bruce Wagner has written twelve novels and bestsellers, including the famous Cellphone Trilogy,Im Losing You(PEN USA finalist), Ill Let You GoandStill Holding),Dead Stars, The Empty Chair,and the PEN/Faulkner-finalistChrysanthemum Palace.He wrote the screenplay for David Cronenbergs filmMaps to the Stars, for which Julianne Moore won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014. In 1993, Wagner wrote and created the visionary mini-seriesWild Palmsfor producer Oliver Stone and co-wrote (with Ullman) three seasons the acclaimedTracey UllmansState of the Union.He has written essays and articles for the New York Times, Artforum and the New Yorker