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Hollywood, Ending

by John Green Publisher: DUTTON

Bestseller Critically Recognized

Public attention, private trust

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Awards & Recognition

  • Bestseller

    Instant #1 New York Times bestseller

    The source describes this book as an instant #1 New York Times bestseller.

  • Editorial selection

    People Book of the Week

    Named People Book of the Week.

  • Critical praise

    Booklist starred review

    Received a starred review; the source quotes praise for Green’s storytelling.

AlbakiReads Editorial

Public attention, private trust

Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo are rising actors cast in a biopic about Andy Warhol, just as their careers—and a possible romance—begin to take shape. The film’s growing profile brings their private lives into sharper view, linking their experience to the story of Warhol and the beginnings of celebrity culture. Told from both Kai’s and Juniper’s perspectives, the novel connects a Hollywood love story with questions about the attention economy, identity, and the boundary between public and private life. Friendship and trust sit alongside the pressures of being seen, while the pair work out who they are together and apart.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Hollywood stories about emerging actors and a developing romance.
  • Readers drawn to dual-perspective fiction about identity, trust, and public attention.

Themes

Celebrity culture and the attention economyPublic and private lifeIdentity and trustRomance and friendship

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Book overview

Instant #1 New York Times bestseller!

Bestselling author John Green makes his much-anticipated return to fiction with a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story about finding someone to trust in an untrustworthy world.

"Wise, tender and engaging." --People, Book of the Week

"Sharply relevant in today's landscape of constant attention and the pressure of a public life." --TODAY, Reading Picks for Fall

"Green's storytelling is astute, empathic, and magnetizing." --Booklist, starred review

For rising talents Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo, being cast in the buzzy biopic Andy Warhol Never Gets Old is the opportunity they've both been waiting for. They're on the verge of breaking out, and maybe even falling in love. Soon, the movie is blowing up, and so are their lives--in exciting, but also terrifying, ways.

John Green artfully blends a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story with an unflinching examination of the insatiable attention economy. Told through dual points of view, the novel brilliantly juxtaposes the on-screen study of Warhol's life at the dawn of celebrity culture with the intimate struggles of two young people figuring out who they are, both together and alone.

Tender, heartbreaking, and shrewdly funny, this is a story as only Green can tell it. Hollywood, Ending is a deeply observed novel about the tension between a public and a private life, and the audacity to pursue the kind of love we all deserve.
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