Bright Shiny Morning Roberto Bolaño Almost is a meditation on

Almost is a meditation on brilliance and on the cost it exacts from those who possess it and those who live adjacent to its light

As Rebus and Clarke delve deeper and deeper into these perilous and obscure worlds

That is until its seductively dark and forbidding owner

Helen Rappaport draws on new and never-before-seen sources from archives in the US

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Bright Shiny Morning Roberto Bolaño Almost is a meditation on#1 National Bestseller "A sprawling, ambitious novel about Los Angeles, written with all the broad stroke energy that was so irresistible to readers in A Million Little Pieces. By turns satirical, tense, and surprisingly touching, it is a portrait of a city onto which so many millions have projected so many dreams. . . . Compelling, cinematic. . . . It achieves the very essence of Los Angeles's fractured, unpredictable, loopy nature." Vanity Fair "A