My 15 Minutes - Softcover

Alterman, Sara Faith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060755911 ISBN 13: 9780060755911

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2005

Synopsis

There's something going on in this Great Land of ours––more and more people are famous for being famous. Now, one of the Avon Trade program's brightest young voices examines what happens to an ordinary young woman who ends up in some pretty wild circumstances.

When a Hollywood heartthrob moves in next door, Julie finds herself thrust into the spotlight and becomes a bona fide celebrity for no good reason at all! But the man known as "The Sexiest Man in Hollywood" is living in her somewhat shoddy building so he can "learn to live like the little people" while preparing for a new role. When Julie is caught by the paparazzi leaving his apartment, clad only in a bathrobe, the publicity machine takes over. Suddenly, Julie is the "new and normal" girlfriend. So fresh! She works as a waitress... So normal! She's a whopping size 10. Amazing, Julie and, by extension, her friends, even her mom, become famous simply for being, well, famous.

About this title

About the Author

Sara Faith Alterman is a regular feature writer for NewEnglandFilm.com, and is the associate director of distribution of BuyIndies.com, an independent film catalog. Since studying film theory at the University of Rochester and comedy writing with Second City, Sara has written sketch comedy for ImprovBostson and has had her work featured in publications, including The Independent, Carolina Woman magazine, and the Discovery Network’s Great Chefs magazine. Sara lives in Boston, is working on her next novel, and hates writing about herself in the third person.

From Publishers Weekly

L.A. denizen Julie Jormano, 24 and a size 12 in a land of size 2s, waits tables at Junebugs, her boss a lisping, mean-spirited woman-hater. Two friends lift her spirits, the slutty, foul-mouthed Billie, a girl she's known from grade school; and her ornery half-pit bull, half-Rottweiler, Riley. The day she moves into her new apartment, she discovers one of her neighbors is Chad Downing, the blond American movie star (think Brad Pitt) who's been Julie's dream boy forever and is covertly renting the apartment to research an upcoming role. A twist of fate brings them together in public, and when paparazzi photos of the pair spike Chad's popularity, his publicist arranges a fake romance that will charm a public anxious to see a waitress gets her 15 minutes of fame. Julie's in heaven, but she has yet to learn that Chad is not the charmer he seems. In fact, the Junebugs customer she's been flirting with-tattooed Tyler, "tall and slim, with spiky black hair and killer green eyes"-might actually be the man she's meant to be with. Marred by the blithe frankness of Julie's talk on sex and excrement, which almost overpowers the book's charms, this is nevertheless an engaging satire of fame and modern romance.
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About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0060755911
• ISBN 13: 9780060755911
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288