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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 3 Princes TJ, Mack, Cantrell, Texas buddies tragic high school mishap followed them for yrs They were princes... The royalty of their 1950 high school graduating class--three promising young men who were, without a doubt, most likely to succeed. And they did succed. In films, in journalism and in charismatic religion, they reached that dazzling, dangerous pinnacle called CELEBRITY...only to be haunted by memories of a dark night of violence and a shared secret guilt that could destroy them all. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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New York Times Bestseller: Three former friends bound by ambition, fame, and a dark secret reunite in this spellbinding saga from the author of Blood and Money. They were the princes of their high school in Fort Worth, Texas. Valedictorian Kleber Cantrell became a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who befriended the famous and exposed the notorious. Mack Crawford, teenage Adonis and University of Texas football hero, used his good looks to jumpstart an acting career. And T.J. Luther, voted "most popular" by the senior class, fell into a lurid life of crime but found God in prison and reinvented himself as the nation's leading right-wing televangelist, his message of faith masking an all-consuming desire for power and revenge. The different routes Kleber, Mack, and T.J. took to celebrity share common signposts: personal upheavals, ruinous marriages, petty jealousies, and blind ambition. Now, on the eve of their twenty-fifth high school reunion, their separate paths will cross to devastating effect--because these three friends have something else in common. It happened in an isolated cabin in the Texas woods on the night they graduated. They vowed never to speak of it again, but they always knew there would be a terrible price to pay . . . A unique blend of fiction and autobiography, Celebrity is an "enthralling" tale of suspense from an Edgar Award-winning author whose journalism career gave him a front-row seat to the tumultuous lives of the rich and famous (TheBoston Globe). A six-month national bestseller, it was the basis for a television miniseries starring Ned Beatty, Hal Holbrook, and James Whitmore Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Celebrity is an engrossing tale written in 1982 that takes place mostly in Texas during the turbulent period from 1950 through the 1970s. Frequent use of racial slurs is jarring, but the terminology does fit in the historical context of this period and geographical location. The book also works as a very detailed character study of the three men and the progression of their lives during this time in history, while the rest of the story chronicles a mystery that opens the book with one of the three men in the hospital in critical condition. The identity of the man or how he was injured isn't revealed until much later in the story. I didn't love this book, so I can't give it 5 stars or even 4 because it is such a long, overblown plot that beats every detail in the lives of the characters into the ground, but even with this criticism, I would rate it at 3.5 because it does tells a compelling story about these men and what drove them to be so successful while dangling the promise of the resolution to the mystery. Overall, Celebrity is a very long-reading book with just enough mystery to keep it interesting.
Trigger Warnings: Child and spousal abuse; suicide; rape; homophobia; racial slurs; mental health issues ( )