Three Girls and their Brother - Softcover
From a Pulizter-shortlisted playwright, ‘Three Girls and their Brother’ is a stunning novel of celebrity, fame and the ups and downs of having your photo splashed all over Times Square.
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.
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Three Girls And Their Brother
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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 exposé 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
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0007257694
- ISBN 13 9780007257690
- BindingPaperback
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