Publish Date |
March 01, 2022 |
Category |
Performing Arts |
Price |
$19.99 |
ISBN: 9781780225661
Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
Published: March 01, 2022
A fascinating, rollicking book in search of why, where and how fame strikes. Sit back and enjoy the ride.—Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk RoadsA magical mystery tour through the history of celebrity - eye opening, provocative, triumphant. Greg Jenner is a suave and generous guide to the glittering, glamorous, often deadly world of celebrity. Dead Famous takes you deep into fabulous lives, tells all about price you pay for fame and explores why the world in which we live needs to make a few shining people into icons who thrill us, obsess us and then, finally, we want to tear apart.—Kate Williams, author and historianFizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.—GUARDIANJenner is an engaging tour guide who smuggles some thought-provoking points about our culture into his zippy pen-portraits.—MAIL ON SUNDAYJenner is equal parts wide-eyed historical buff and sassy polemicist. Like some frisky, over-caffeinated lovechild of Dan Snow and Marina Hyde, he can't help but entertain you, even as he's pouring facts down your throat.—GUARDIAN - Book of the Day[An] engaging and well-researched book... Jenner brings his material to vivid life—OBSERVERRollicking—DAILY MAILThere is an enjoyably wide range of cultural references... plenty of half-forgotten quirky treasures—SPECTATORThis is a lively look at history's great and gawped at - and how they reshaped the world around them.—HISTORY REVEALEDWith characteristic wit and curiosity, Jenner reveals the glamour and graft of celebrity lives in this rich, entertaining and original history.—Dr Hannah Greig, historical adviser to The Favourite and PoldarkRecommended read... entertaining and resonant stories of celebs from about 1700 to 1950.—READERS' DIGEST