Amputation

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.

• | Author: Bruce Wagner
• | Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• | Publication Date: Sep 23, 2025
• | Number of Pages: 200 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 1648211615
• | ISBN-13: 9781648211614