Bump

By Diana Wagman

Book Overview

From an award-winning writing, this is a darkly funny, cinematic page-turner that explores the line between obsession and love. Bump is the story of a trio of motorists and one policeman linked together by a tangled, life-altering web of coincidence in the immediate aftermath of a three-car pileup in Los Angeles. Dorothy is to be married in less than 24 hours but can't shake the memory of her ex-boyfriend. Madelyn is a married mother of two who falls in love with a double-amputee she met through a suicide hotline. Leo is a golden-eyed Latino who speaks no Spanish and has come to L.A. to reclaim his girlfriend. Ray is a suicide-obsessed Beverly Hills cop whose wife has just left him. Diana Wagman's fast-paced and vividly cinematic narrative presents an engrossing tableau of synchronicity steered by obsession and alienation. Beautifully written and deeply affecting, Bump is hard to put down, and hard to forget. "Diana Wagman is wicked fun, and ... Bump shows off her talents to a T. Witty, perceptive and compulsively readable."--Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078671106X
• ISBN13: 9780786711062
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
• Length: 327 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

such mood...

diana wagman does an amazing job of setting a mood with her language. this is one of those books that make you feel sad, but in such a good way.

This is one seriously good book

Because I loved this book so much, I already gave it to a friend, who then bought it for a friend of hers. thus, I'm not going to spend time telling you what it's about. The Booklist review above can do that.This is the kind of novel that you will truly read in two days. The writing is exciting and quick, the characters interesting and weird and true, and the plot, point-of-view shifts, and dialogue all first rate. You will not be disappointed by this read in the least.