**"Peppered with moments of political satire and heartfelt introspection, Stephens's novel also offers a fun-house depiction of the absurdities and horrors of the surveillance state. This is an excellent debut." --_Publishers Weekly_** Lisa Pearl is an American teaching English in Japan and the si
Famous People
โ Scribed by Justin Kuritzkes
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 125 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1250309034
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โฆ Synopsis
This fresh, smart novel in the guise of a celebrity memoir probes the inner life of a mega-famous pop star
_Honestly, what amazes me the most with a lot of the people I meet is that they think they're so big. They think, ultimately, that the universe revolves around them. And I'm beginning to think that it's only when you live a life like mine --it's only when you're in a position where you don't even really own yourself, when you can't even really say that you're a citizen of any particular country--that you realize that we're all just tiny pieces of cosmic dust floating through the void until we disappear forever and we're never heard from again. _
So begins the life story of our uber famous twenty-two year old narrator. A teen idol since he was twelve, when a video of him singing went viral, his star has only risen since. Now, haunted by the suicide of his manager-father, unsettled by the very different paths he and his his teenage love...
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