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Laddar... Arts & Entertainments (utgåvan 2014)av Christopher Beha (Författare)
VerksinformationArts & Entertainments: A Novel av Christopher Beha
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. A perfect summer book to read about reality television. Unfortunately while the book is fiction it may as well be a documentary of TV, social media, and celebrity in 2014, and was completely believable. The book is well written and quite funny. ( ) If it is true that reality TV is in its death throes, I can only hope that this ridiculously plotted, amusing book is found guilty. Handsome Eddie is a failed actor whose wife is pushing for in vitro fertilization which they cannot afford. He teaches theatre at the same Catholic school that he attended. His actress ex-girlfriend has a very successful TV show and Eddie agrees to furnish a scuzzy reality TV producer with a sex tape featuring her, taken from old videos he had always intended to throw away. Eddie is fired from his job, and when his wife Susan becomes pregnant with triplets, they are both sucked into reality TV as active participants. Mostly satire, but the novel so convincingly demonstrates the seductive capabilities of fame, wealth, and overall bad judgment, that the reader wonders if resistance isn't futile after all. As the absurdity ratchets up, one hopes for relief but stand by, it gets worse. An enjoyable and clever farce. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
"Handsome Eddie Hartley was once a golden boy poised for the kind of success promised by good looks and a modicum of talent. Now thirty-three, he has abandoned his dream of an acting career and accepted the reality of life as a drama teacher at the boys' prep school he once attended. But when Eddie and his wife, Susan, discover they cannot have children, it's one disappointment too many. Weighted down with debt, Susan's mounting unhappiness, and his own deepening sense of failure, Eddie is confronted with an alluring solution when an old friend-turned-Web-impresario suggests Eddie sell a sex tape he made with an ex-girlfriend, now a wildly popular television star. In an era when any publicity is good publicity, Eddie imagines that the tape won't cause any harm--a mistake that will have disastrous consequences and propel him straight into the glaring spotlight he once thought he craved. A Hilariously biting and incisive takedown of our culture's monstrous obsession with fame, Arts & Entertainments is also a poignant and humane portrait of a young man's belated coming-of-age, the complications of love, and the surprising ways in which the most meaningful lives often turn out to be the ones we least expected to lead."--Inside of cover. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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