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A Star Is Bored
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ISBN10: 1250266505
ISBN13: 9781250266507
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: Jun 15 2021
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781250266507
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: Jun 15 2021
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
People Magazine Best Book of Summer 2020
Named a Must-Read Summer book by Town & Country
Named One of the 14 Best Books of Summer 2020 by Harper's Bazaar
One of Library Journal's 2020 Titles to Watch
One of the 30 Best Beach Reads According to Parade Magazine
A Star is Bored is an absolute knockout. Riotously funny and wickedly tender.--Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones and the Six A hilariously heartfelt novel influenced by the author's time assisting Carrie Fisher. She needs an assistant.
He needs a hero. Charlie Besson is tense and sweating as he prepares for a wild job interview. His car is idling, like his life, outside the Hollywood mansion of Kathi Kannon, star of stage and screen and People magazine's Worst Dressed list. She's an actress in need of assistance, and he's adrift and in need of a lifeline. Kathi is an icon, bestselling author, and award-winning movie star, most known for her role as Priestess Talara in a blockbuster sci-fi film. She's also known in another role: Outrageous Hollywood royalty. Admittedly so. Famously so. Chaotically so, as Charlie quickly discovers. Charlie gets the job, and his three-year odyssey is filled with late-night shopping sprees, last-minute trips to see the aurora borealis, and an initiation to that most sacred of Hollywood tribes: the personal assistant. But Kathi becomes much more than a boss, and as their friendship grows Charlie must make a choice. Will he always be on the sidelines of life, assisting the great forces that be, or can he step into his own life's leading role? Laugh-out-loud funny, and searingly poignant, Byron Lane's A Star is Bored is a novel that, like the star at its center, is enchanting and joyous, heartbreaking and hopeful. Wildly funny and irreverent... Lane's writing lifts the novel far above its gossamer Hollywood setting, suffusing [the novel] with a complex sensitivity.--The New York Times Book Review
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