Fuel Injected Dreams

Literature & Fiction

JAMES ROBERT BAKER

Contemporary

Corgi Book

United Artists has optioned the screen rights for this story of a wild, wreckless ride through the surreal world of the 1960s Los Angeles limelight. Scott Cochrane is rock's hottest deejay. Dennis Contrelle is rock's greatest legend. And Sharlene Contrelle is rock's sweetest songbird, trapped in a teen dream of love turned into a nightmare of adult perversion.

Fuel-injected Dreams

BANTAM PRESS

Boy Wonder

Literary

Futura Publications

A potent satire of American culture in an era of media overexposure, where what we are told replaces truth and what we see on television becomes our religion. A logic-defying, plot, encompassing the exploding breasts of a surgically enhanced TV star, Eva Braun's diet pills, a forged O.J. Simpson murder tape, a cult of fundamentalist tech heads, and a profanity-obsessed Russian mafia hit man, leads all the way over the top when a vision of Catherine Deneuve encourages James to take out God. James Robert Baker is the author of Testosterone, Tim & Pete, Boy Wonder, Fuel-Injected Dreams ,and Adrenaline. On November 5, 1997, he committed suicide.

Anarchy: A Novel

Humor & Satire

Alyson Books

Fourth Estate

Boy Wonder (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

Told in the form of interviews with those who knew and hated him, this hilarious and irreverent mockumentary recounts the rise and fall of notorious Hollywood producer Shark Trager. As a young man, Shark had dreams of directing artistic movies, but when his film school project is savaged by a snobby French critic, Shark turns instead to producing exploitative trash, the more shocking and outrageous the better. Fueled by a nonstop supply of sex and drugs, Shark's life and work become increasingly bizarre and erratic. Yet we meet a different side of Shark too, as we learn how he saved a group of Sunday school teachers held hostage by terrorists, prevented a horrific attack on Nancy Reagan by a sex-crazed donkey, and single-handedly took out a squad of dangerous neo-Nazis posing as disabled schoolchildren. It all leads up to a wild and explosive finale when, against all odds, one of Shark's films finds itself a contender for the Academy Awards--but the ceremony doesn't go exactly according to plan ... Riotously funny, wickedly politically incorrect, and completely impossible to put down, James Robert Baker's satire of the film industry Boy Wonder (1988), long revered as a cult classic, returns to print at last in this new edition, which includes an afterword by his partner, Ron Robertson. "[A]mphetamine-drenched, violence-riddled, sex-steeped . . . an exhilarating read." -- John Keilman, Chicago Tribune "Wild invention, bizarre plot twists . . . a raunchy, funny, savvy tale." -- Kirkus Reviews

Valancourt Books

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