Pretty Things

Booklist called Susan Compo ""smart, sassy, and tough,"" while Publishers Weekly praised her ""witty, unflinching prose."" Compo's narrative voice--satirical and allusive--has been compared to Dorothy Parker's, and her characters display the same irresistible blend of smart-ass wit, despair, and whistling-in-the-dark bravado. Pretty Things offers both a sparkling portrait of a talent agent juggling the interests of her oddball clients, and a haunting memoir of growing up in suburban Orange County and coming of age in 1970s glitter-era Los Angeles. ""No one writes prose like Susan Compo. She's a complete Los -Angeles original--elegant, wistful, funny?.?.?. and not to be missed.""--Sandra Tsing Loh