Christopher Beha: Arts & Entertainments
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Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en
Handsome Eddie Hartley was once a golden boy poised for the kind of success promised by good looks and a modicum of talent. Now thirty-three, he has abandoned his dream of an acting career and accepted the reality of life as a drama teacher at the boys prep school he once attended. But when Eddie and his wife, Susan, discover they cannot have children, it s one disappointment too many.
Weighted down with debt, Susan 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. In an era when any publicity is good publicity, Eddie imagines that the tape won t cause any harm — a mistake that will have disastrous consequences and propel him straight into the glaring spotlight he once thought he craved.
A hilariously biting and incisive takedown of our culture s monstrous obsession with fame,