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AlbakiReads Editorial A Hollywood ambition story with an exploitative edge
A Hollywood ambition story with an exploitative edge
Set around red carpets and Hollywood’s status-conscious social circuit, Bought centers on Emma Swanson, a reporter dissatisfied with lightweight celebrity coverage and eager for both professional credibility and personal access to the industry’s inner circles. Her encounter with Jessica, whose relationships are tied to material gain, becomes the basis for a potentially career-making story—but also draws Emma into the same transactional world she hopes to examine. The novel frames ambition, celebrity culture, journalism, sex, and luxury as closely entangled pressures, following the costs of treating another person’s life as a story and of pursuing validation through proximity to power.
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- Adult fiction readers interested in Hollywood and celebrity culture
- Readers interested in stories about journalism and professional ambition
- Readers drawn to fiction examining transactional relationships and social status
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Hollywood cultureJournalismAmbitionTransactional relationshipsSex and power
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Book Overview Anna David turns her reporter's eye for detail toward Tinseltown's seedy underbelly yet again and "eloquently and humorously unveil[s] wh...
Anna David turns her reporter's eye for detail toward Tinseltown's seedy underbelly yet again and "eloquently and humorously unveil[s] what could be a new subgenre: Chick Lit with a Message" (New York Post).
Tired of gathering banal quotes from the B-list on the sidelines of the red carpet, Emma Swanson publicly yearns for a more substantial career but privately dreams of a hotshot boyfriend to transport her into the beating heart of the Hollywood scene. Instead, she meets Jessica--beautiful, cavalier, manipulative--who shamelessly trades sex for the gifts it can bring. Convinced that writing a story about Jessica and her ilk would seriously boost her journalistic cred, Emma soon finds herself sucked into a world where the luxuries of prettied-up prostitution may cost more than she ever expected.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 288 | Language: English | Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS | ISBN: 0061669180
FormatPaperback
Pages288
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0061669180
EAN9780061669187
PublisherHARPERCOLLINS
Publication Date2009-05-19
EditionOriginal
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight0.48 Pounds
Length8.04 Inches
Width5.26 Inches
Height0.68 Inches
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