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Now an impressive film from director Gia Coppola (Francis Ford Coppola's granddaughter)-starring Emma Roberts, James Franco, Nat Wolff, and Val Kilmer-the fiction debut from James Franco that was called compelling and gutsy.
James Franco's story collection traces the lives of a group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds, struggle with their families and one another, and succumb to self-destructive, often heartless nihilism. In "Lockheed" a young woman's summer-spent working a dull internship-is suddenly upended by a spectacular incident of violence at a house party. In "American History" a high school freshman attempts to impress a girl with a realistic portrayal of a slave owner during a classroom skit-only to have his feigned bigotry avenged. In "I Could Kill Someone," a lonely teenager buys a gun with the aim of killing his high school tormentor, but begins to wonder about his bully's own inner life.
These stories are a compelling portrait of lives on the rough fringes of youth.
Features a bonus essay by James Franco on Gia Coppola's film adaptation.
James Franco's story collection traces the lives of a group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds, struggle with their families and one another, and succumb to self-destructive, often heartless nihilism. In "Lockheed" a young woman's summer-spent working a dull internship-is suddenly upended by a spectacular incident of violence at a house party. In "American History" a high school freshman attempts to impress a girl with a realistic portrayal of a slave owner during a classroom skit-only to have his feigned bigotry avenged. In "I Could Kill Someone," a lonely teenager buys a gun with the aim of killing his high school tormentor, but begins to wonder about his bully's own inner life.
These stories are a compelling portrait of lives on the rough fringes of youth.
Features a bonus essay by James Franco on Gia Coppola's film adaptation.
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Reviews
"Spare and riveting… Franco's ear for juvenile vernacular is like an Ouija board summoning the lost voices of Generation Z."
O, the Oprah Magazine
"Compelling and gutsy."
Meghan O'Grady, Vogue