The Village Voice, February 16th, 2005
THE CHRYSANTHEMUM PALACE By Bruce Wagner Simon & Schuster, 210 pp., $23
Pass the Percodan: Bruce Wagner dissects Hollywood cynicism
Reading The Chrysanthemum Palace, Bruce Wagner's latest novel, is like watching a drunk pretending to walk a straight line all the while knowing he's heading for a nasty spill. In this case the drunk isThad Michelet, the self-loathing son of a great American novelist, and the drinks are mixed with Percodan and Klonopin, which creates some wincingly funny moments on the set of the long-running TV series Starwatch: The Navigators, where he plays a noble Vorbal...
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