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GLITTERBALLS [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 352 pages, kõrgus x laius: 198x129 mm, 14; 14
  • Ilmumisaeg: 14-Nov-2024
  • Kirjastus: GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY
  • ISBN-10: 1068757701
  • ISBN-13: 9781068757709
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 352 pages, kõrgus x laius: 198x129 mm, 14; 14
  • Ilmumisaeg: 14-Nov-2024
  • Kirjastus: GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY
  • ISBN-10: 1068757701
  • ISBN-13: 9781068757709
Teised raamatud teemal:
Debauched pop star Howie Howden has led a charmed life, and there has been nothing a fat cheque, a non-disclosure agreement or a course of penicillin hasn't made go away. But a calamitous night on the town, with his troubled yet dutiful manager Eddy Katz, has consequences for both men. Does Howie's reputation as a 'ladies' man' conceal a darker truth? Will the tabloids continue to celebrate his out of control libido or is his luck finally running out? And what price will Eddy pay for his ill-judged foray into the sleazy underbelly of the VIP lounge?

Arvustused

'As a debut novel this is top-notch talent. Funny, acerbic, classy writing and a story like a five course meal.' PAUL ABBOTT screen writer / producer







'I think it is magnificent - whole worlds in tiny sitting rooms. I'm very jealous. I'd love to have written this.' JENNY ECLAIR comedian / writer







'I smell a hit!' STEWART LEVINE record producer







'So much more than a funny book.' MICHELE MCDONAGH writer







'Infused with a savage wit, Glitterballs is a bleak-black satire on the music industry, sleazy celebrities, and the grim reality of fame. It is a seething, acerbic and frequently hilarious morality tale of pathetic pop-stars, those that perpetuate them, and the unfortunates who fall foul of their desperate behaviour.' ADELLE STRIPE writer







'This is absolutely STONKING. It's like Tom Sharpe went woke.' JENNY LANDRETH writer







'Wow.' LEMN SISSAY poet







'It's that rare thing, a great comic novel with prose that sings; imagine the dark Northern suburbia of Peter Tinniswood crossed with a particularly grisly episode of VH1: Behind The Music.' ANDREW MALE music journalist







'It's brilliant.' HARLAND MILLER writer / artist







'Piss funny.' SEAN CONWAY screenwriter







'A fiercely sharp, cackle-out loud send-up o the misogynist music industry that turns its eyeroll-inducing vernacular into gleeful, sardonic fiction.' AUDREY GOLDEN writer







'Incredibly funny, a tale inhabited by the damned, the damaged and the awful. Brilliant.' MARK THOMAS comedian







'Funny books are rare, and hilarious books are gold dust. Glitterballs is a 24 carat dissection of the hubris of fame. Obviously I loved it.' BENJAMIN MYERS writer







'Tears now, at the end. Just beautiful.' JIMMY DOWDELL screen writer

Michele Howarth was born and raised in Liverpool and studied Fine Art at Leeds Polytechnic. She's had a long career as a sculptor which has been variously interrupted by caring for a poorly husband, stepchildren, aged parents and the Happy Mondays... She has exhibited with the Nicholas Treadwell Gallery for many years, but has also taken part in group shows at The White Cube, The Hepworth and the Saatchi galleries. In the 1990s she co-wrote 'Grope', a play based on her time working in a dating agency. It subsequently became the subject of a BBC2 Video Diary - an experience she describes as so joyless and exploitative that it put her off writing for the next thirty years. Glitterballs is her debut novel.