Key characters include the Scottish tycoon who capitalized on his profits from the Opium War to break the 19thcentury power of China and buy the birthplace of Harris Tweed at the time of its creation
Helen Rappaport draws on new and never-before-seen sources from archives in the US
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
rather than verse by verse
"There's an alpha inside of you
Bright Shiny Morning Roberto Bolaño Key characters include the Scottish#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