Amputation

A Novel

By: Bruce Wagner

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Hardcover | 23 September 2025

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192 Pages

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20.9 x 13.9 x 2.2

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AMPUTATION is the first novel to be written about the inferno that obliterated two Los Angeles cities in January of 2025.

Major characters are comedian Stephen Colbert; Karen Bass; a Timothée Chalamet stunt double; a fiercely pro-Palestinian heiress and her Zionist father; disgraced Grey’s Anatomy writer Elisabeth Finch and a failed indie film producer——along with an assorted battalion of ordinary people, opportunists, and looters.

A fable drenched in hyperrealism, AMPUTATION is a burnt jewel box showcasing Wagner's transcendent, scabrously poetic powers as he explores the lives (and deaths) of the fire victims, and the consequences of dereliction, delusion, incompetence——and impermanence.

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