Chore Whore

Heather Howard

За особеностите на екземпляра

Състояние:: Много добро
Забележка:: Отлични корици и книжно тяло, захабена обложка.
Език:: Английски
Наличност:: 1 бр.

За изданието

Издателство:: HarperCollins World
Град на издаване:: New York
Година:: 2005 г.
Език:: Английски
Страници:: 280
Корици:: Твърди
Категория:: Чужда проза
Тегло (гр.):: 520
Ширина (мм):: 160
Височина (мм):: 235
Дебелина (мм):: 27
ISBN:: 9780060723910

After working thanklessly for a dozen celebrities at a time for nearly twenty years, Corki Brown has finally reached her breaking point. She's tired of finding high-end, supersize condoms on her days off. Tired of handling extortion deals and washing groupies' dirty underwear. Tired of whipping up intimate dinners (on no notice, of course) for ten stars at a time who all have their own strict personal diets. For Corki, mundane tasks have suddenly morphed into the surreal, and when her ten-year-old-son starts exhibiting some very strange habits, the need for change becomes clear. Using her wits and talents learned from years of mothering self-centered stars, Corki devises a plan of escape -- to save herself, her family, and, ultimately, her sanity. Zippy tell-all follows the misadventures of Corki Brown, professional coddler to the stars. Corki Brown has spent almost 20 years taking care of Hollywood celebrities-cooking their meals, picking up their dry cleaning, and using her garage to store their incriminating goods (gifts from an ex-boyfriend, unlicensed guns, etc.). She's thoroughly disenchanted with her career, but as a single mom with a ten-year-old son to support, she can't quit now. Our story opens on an annual ritual: purchasing memorable gifts for Steven Spielberg on behalf of her clients on the occasion of his birthday. She's also planning to cater a dinner for Academy Award-winner Lucy Bennett, and drop off the laundry of the latest conquest of aging star Jock Straupman. The author's strongest suit is in presenting these hectic, absurd mundanities of assistant work; she herself spent 20 years doing tasks that ostensibly resemble the ones her heroine faces, and her accounts of highway shortcuts and the bakshish system ring true. But for those hoping to get in on real-life, titillating scuttlebutt, the rest of her work is more obscure; although she's presumably dishing dirt on various baddies, it isn't clear exactly who's who. Howard's celebrity protagonists-Lucy, Jock, and others-seem to be composites; understandably, as presumably few Hollywood star would tolerate being presented as maintaining an underground arsenal or recruiting underage sex partners. (Jennifer Aniston, however, is mentioned by name as the rare celeb who treats her employees humanely.) The story gets wilder by the minute, as Corki's clients charge her with planning a last-minute wedding in Greece, and exchanging $100,000 for damning home videos; the whole is then wrapped up in an improbably neat twist, but the plot is hardly the point here. Fast-moving fluff, with hours of fun for anyone determined to figure out who the bad guys really are. (Kirkus Reviews)

Ключови думи: contemporary fiction, съвременна проза