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The Star Witness
Andy Hamilton
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Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
‘If you know me at all, you will know me as a liar.’
Kevin Carver is a household name. A popular TV soap star, he’s coasting through life in the same semi-detached, slightly smug way he’s always done.
But when he callously dumps his much younger girlfriend Jade over supper one evening, he makes the first in a series of catastrophic mistakes.
One poor decision leads to another and soon his whole life begins to unravel. He finds himself the subject of vitriolic press attacks, a police investigation and so much public loathing that he starts to wonder if he has any chance of receiving a fair trial. As the line blurs between his own life and that of the character he plays on TV, Kevin is forced to confront a lifetime of inadequacy in order to redeem himself.
The Star Witness is the story of one man’s descent into disgrace and his journey to rejoin the human race. This pin-sharp satire on the shallows of modern media culture will keep you laughing, cringing and guessing until the very last page.
Kundenbewertungen
comedy fiction, satire, stalking, dark humour, redemption, perjury, Nick Hornby, Joshua Ferris, David Quantick, literary social comedy, Jonathan Coe, celebrity culture, David Nobbs, debut novel, trial by media, comedian, domestic abuse, modern media culture