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How to Be Famous: A Novel
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A hilarious, heartfelt sequel to How to Build a Girl, the breakout novel from feminist sensation Caitlin Moran who the New York Times called, ""rowdy and fearless . . . sloppy, big-hearted and alive in all the right ways.""
You can’t have your best friend be famous if you’re not famous. It doesn’t work. You’re emotional pen-friends. You can send each other letters—but you’re not doing anything together. You live in different countries.
Johanna Morrigan (AKA Dolly Wilde) has it all: at eighteen, she lives in her own flat in London and writes for the coolest music magazine in Britain. But Johanna is miserable. Her best friend and man of her dreams John Kite has just made it big in 1994’s hot new BritPop scene. Suddenly John exists on another plane of reality: that of the Famouses.
Never one to sit on the sidelines, Johanna hatches a plan: she will Saint Paul his Corinthians, she will Jimmy his Pinocchio—she will write a monthly column, by way of a manual to the famous, analyzing fame, its power, its dangers, and its amusing aspects. In stories, girls never win the girl—they are won. Well, Johanna will re-write the stories, and win John, through her writing.
But as Johanna’s own star rises, an unpleasant one-night stand she had with a stand-up comedian, Jerry Sharp, comes back to haunt in her in a series of unfortunate consequences. How can a girl deal with public sexual shaming? Especially when her new friend, the up-and-coming feminist rock icon Suzanne Banks, is Jimmy Cricketing her?
For anyone who has been a girl or known one, who has admired fame or judged it, and above all anyone who loves to laugh till their sides ache, How to Be Famous is a big-hearted, hilarious tale of fame and fortune-and all they entail.
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Caitlin Moran
Caitlin Moran (Brighton, Reino Unido, 1975) recibió en 2010 el Premio de la Prensa Británica al mejor columnista del año y en 2011 el premio al mejor crítico y entrevistador. En Anagrama ha publicado Cómo ser mujer (uno de los mayores y más fulminantes éxitos en lengua inglesa de los últimos tiempos, libro del año en los Galaxy National Book Awards, y que obtuvo el British Book Awards Book of the Year y un Irish Book Award): «El feminismo de Moran, imprescindible en la sociedad actual, no es pacato ni cristaliza en el uso de un lenguaje políticamente correcto. Mete el dedo en el ojo a los lectores. Al mismo tiempo, provoca carcajadas al contradecir algunos de los lugares comunes del feminismo sin dejar de ser feminista» (Marta Sanz); «Si Tom Sharpe hubiese sido señora y ensayista, habría firmado Cómo ser mujer. Es la contracrónica de la historia del feminismo» (Sara Carreira, La Voz de Galicia); «Una guía de neofeminismo punk» (Gabriela Wiener), y las novelas Cómo se hace una chica: «Caitlin Moran ataca de nuevo con su punk y divertida novela. Todos somos una chica rellenita con ganas de patear culos. Moran nos da la fuerza» (Luna Miguel, Playground); «Si pudieran sintetizarla sería una anfetamina. Moran dispara bromas y frases hilarantes a ritmo de chachachá acelerado» (Lucía Lijtmaer, eldiario.es), y Cómo ser famosa: «La “chica mala” de la literatura británica... despliega su capacidad para la sátira» (Lourdes Ventura, El Mundo); «Con la misma inteligencia humorística paranormal de siempre analiza el espejismo de la fama» (Miqui Otero, El Periódico); «Descarada, procaz, gamberra y muy divertida» (Eva Cosculluela, ABC).
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