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    Katerina
    Katerina
    Katerina
    Audiobook7 hours

    Katerina

    Written by James Frey

    Narrated by James Frey

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    From the New York Times bestselling author of A Million Little Pieces and Bright Shiny Morning comes Katerina, James Frey’s highly anticipated new novel set in 1992 Paris and contemporary Los Angeles.

    A kiss, a touch. A smile and a beating heart. Love and sex and dreams, art and drugs and the madness of youth. Betrayal and heartbreak, regret and pain, the melancholy of age. Katerina, the explosive new novel by America’s most controversial writer, is a sweeping love story alternating between 1992 Paris and Los Angeles in 2018.

    At its center are a young writer and a young model on the verge of fame, both reckless, impulsive, addicted, and deeply in love. Twenty-five years later, the writer is rich, famous, and numb, and he wants to drive his car into a tree, when he receives an anonymous message that draws him back to the life, and possibly the love, he abandoned years prior. Written in the same percussive, propulsive, dazzling, breathtaking style as A Million Little Pieces, Katerina echoes and complements that most controversial of memoirs, and plays with the same issues of fiction and reality that created, nearly destroyed, and then recreated James Frey in the American imagination.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateSep 11, 2018
    ISBN9781508260462
    Author

    James Frey

    James Frey is originally from Cleveland. He is the author of the bestselling novels, A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard. He lives in New York.

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    • 5/5
      Wow... just wow!
      James Frey is now permanently on my short list of favorite writers. A million little pieces was a brilliant novel and My friend Leonard was its beautiful moving sequel and I completely loved both of them. Katerina is probably going to be my favorite novel by James Frey, albeit that I am definitely also going to read The Final Testament of The Holy Bible and Bright Shiny Morning next. The love story tore my heart from the inside out. It's pure pain, joy, heaven, hell, addiction, persistence, belief, God, love, torture and the truth and horror of the human experience. I absolutely love it and I couldn't pry myself from the voice of James as he read his own story. I can 100% guarantee that you will enjoy reading this story as a book, but you will get a whole different experience if you just hear him tell his own story in his own words, the same way he wrote it and you can feel the stirrings of emotions in his voice. Amazing fucking book. Bravo.

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    • 5/5
      This novel. My heart. Destiny. This book is about so. much. But above all, it is about the way that our lives are formed. A series of choices with outcomes we cannot know until later, much later, sometimes never, and thus our life blends together to become what it is. Satisfaction and regret. Soothing and scalding. Lovely and repulsive. Haunting and unforgettable.
    • 2/5
      Katerina is most obviously a fictionalized approach of James Frey’s life. His protagonist Jay narrates through two distinct eras of his life: when he was young, drug and horny in Paris (1992-93) and when he’s middle-aged and depressed in Los Angeles (2017). A mysterious Facebook friend request bring him back down memory lane and makes him live through painful memories again…Katerina is a book that shouldn’t have been published but rather buried deep in one of the messy notepads writers keep when they start their journey in becoming the next Hemingway or Hugo. In my opinion, this is not a novel neither a memoir but the diary of an alcoholic, drug-addicted man who prefers lying to the public rather than owning up to the failures of his life and not hide under the power of literature and poetry who many of us enjoy and love.