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Three Girls and Their Brother Theresa Rebeck

Three Girls and Their Brother By Theresa Rebeck

Three Girls and Their Brother by Theresa Rebeck


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Summary

A stunning novel of celebrity and the price of fame from a Pulitzer-shortlisted playwright

Three Girls and Their Brother Summary

Three Girls and Their Brother by Theresa Rebeck

A stunning novel of celebrity and the price of fame from a Pulitzer-shortlisted playwright 'Being a playwright, I think of language as attached to characters.I love novels told from a third-person point of view, but i can't write them, because i don't know who's talking.' Theresa Rebeck It was the photograph in the New Yorker which started it all. They were three young, beautiful, red-haired girls, there granddaughters of a literary lion. They were News. But it was the row over the youngest's reaction to the attentions from one of Hollywood's biggest stars that made them Celebrities. The family -- the three sisters, their brother, their mother, their normally absent father -- are sucked into a whirlwind of agents, producers, managers, photo shoots, paparazzi, journalists, stylists, parties, shows, a maelstrom they have no idea how to control. The three girls -- and their brother, an uneasy observer -- experiment with life and change, and learn to survive, each of them differently. Each of them pays a different price in their relationship with each other, with their parents and in their beliefs in themselves and the civilisation around them. Three Girls and their Brother is a novel to devour. The story is compelling, sometimes cutting, sometimes touching. The characters leap widely off the page. The setting and portrait of the celebrity scene is completely convincing, busy and yet intimate. Theresa Rebeck's first novel is a triumph.

Three Girls and Their Brother Reviews

Praise for 'Three Girls and their Brother': 'Coming from an already highly-acclaimed screenwriter, Rebeck knows how to spin a good yarn' Daily Mirror 'Both dark and comic' Publishing News 'Rebeck shines...her insiders look at the theatre world is spot on and uproarious...crackling satire and scene stealing secondaries carry the book' US Publishers Weekly 'Playwright Rebeck's first novel is a wickedly enjoyable expose of modern celebrity!Rebeck's dramatic skills are evident in the youthful, often profane voices!A timely and entertaining modern morality tale.' Kirkus 'Three Girls and their Brother is a brilliant fiction debut. Rebeck weaves such an atmosphere of excitement and turmoil. I felt genuinely close to these characters -- all three sisters and their brother. The insider's look at the life of young models and the way instant success can upend everything resonates in hilarious and heart-breaking ways. I found it impossible to put this book down. Carol Goodman, Author of 'The Lake of Dead Languages' Praise for Theresa Rebeck: 'Theresa Rebeck is so slick that Gucci wears her shoes.' New Yorker

About Theresa Rebeck

Theresa Rebeck is an American stage, screen, television, and radio writer. She was born in Ohio and graduated from Cincinnati's Ursuline Academy in 1976. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame in 1980, and followed that with three degrees from Brandeis University: an MA in 1983, a M.F.A. in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Victorian era melodrama, awarded in 1989. She is writing her second novel.

Additional information

GOR006800427
9780007256327
0007256329
Three Girls and Their Brother by Theresa Rebeck
Used - Very Good
Hardback
HarperCollins Publishers
20080401
416
N/A
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