Arts & Entertainments - Softcover

Beha, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 006232246X ISBN 13: 9780062322463

Verlag: EccoPress, 2014

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"In this novel, being a star is like being trapped in a Kafka story. As Beha pushes Hartley through the bizarre mechanics of fame, he brings in everything from religion to social media. It's a funny, sharp study of celebrity and all the strings that come with it. A-"--Entertainment Weekly

"Accomplished."--American Spectator

"It's short and fun and was an easy read, but there's also something to chew on. We definitely recommend you add it to your list."--Entertainment Weekly / Shelf-Life.EW.com

"Beha's story could be (and is) a light satirical romp across our cultural lowlands, but it is also a meditation on the inchoate impulses that lead people to expose themselves, often literally, to the world."--New York Times Book Review

"A darkly witty tale."--Christianity Today

"It's the funny type of social satire that is less LOL, more, "God, our society is so messed up that this could easily be real, and all I can do is laugh about it," and that's what makes it such a treat to read."--Flavorwire

"A funny novel about bad fame... [a] fast-moving satire by Christopher Beha about the semi-accidental creation of a contemporary two-bit celebrity: sex tape, social networks, and subsequent media circus."----New York Magazine

"Arts and Entertainments is a 21st-century Faust written in the style of Muriel Spark."----Books & Culture

"A former actor's sex tape rocks his world. Arts & Entertainments, by Christopher Beha, is a must"----Cosmopolitan

"I tore through Arts & Entertainments in a single evening, riveted by Beha's satiric indictment of an appallingly recognizable celebrity culture...a deft, clever, and altogether too plausible novel, its last line delivering an unexpected punch that is entirely earned. Read it in an evening and see what I mean."----Rebecca Mead, author of My Life in Middlemarch

Reseña del editor:

Christopher Beha delivers a cutting send-up of our cultural obsession with celebrity—a deliciously witty, and ultimately tender, novel about the absurdity of fame and the complexity of love sure to appeal to fans of Maria Semple and Jess Walter.

A sharp-edged satire with heart, Arts & Entertainments is the story of Handsome Eddie Hartley who, at thirty-three, has forgone dreams of an acting career for the reality of life as a drama teacher at a boys’ prep school. But when Eddie and his wife, Susan, discover they cannot have children, it is one disappointment too many.

Weighted down with debt, his wife’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. Overcoming his initial moral qualms, Eddie figures that in an era when any publicity is good publicity, the tape won’t cause any harm—a decision that will have disastrous consequences and propel him straight into the glaring spotlight he once thought he craved.

A hilariously biting and incisive take-down 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.

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• Verlag: EccoPress
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 006232246X
• ISBN 13: 9780062322463
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288