Fierce People

Uncorrected Proof Copy. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 335, [3]. Illustrated wraps.

Signed by Author to title page.

Wittenborn's debut novel. A modern coming-of-age yarn, involving a New York City adolescent's cocaine-addled masseuse mom and her latest hook-up, an aging billionaire. Basis for the synonymous 2005 film adaptation by director Griffin Dunne from the author's own screenplay, starring Diane Lane, Donald Sutherland, Anton Yelchin, Kristen Stewart, and Chris Evans. "Punched-up with sexual awakening, loss of innocence, first love, drugs, battles lost and won, adolescent rebellion – Dirk Wittenborn captures it all with a bright and vivid intensity." –Bret Easton Ellis