Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over The World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy - Softcover

Hyde, Marina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846552591 ISBN 13: 9781846552595

Publisher: Harvill Secker, 2009

Synopsis

These days, entertainers no longer just entertain: they advocate dubious 'religions', work for the United Nations, get face-time with heads of state and monopolise problems they are infinitely qualified to solve - problems like Africa, the Middle East, and AIDS.

We stand at the beginning of a bright new chapter in human history. Feast your eyes, then, on Sharon Stone's peace mission to Israel, on a world where Angelina Jolie advises on the Iraqi reconstruction effort or Charlie Sheen analyses 9/11, and in which Jude Law's attempts to establish contact with the Taliban are reported without irony.

Celebrity is a roadmap, a survivalist's guide, a Rosetta Stone for our times: without a copy you are not equipped to engage with the world...

About this title

Review:

`frequently hilarious, with incredibly bleak undertones'

Book Description:

A brilliant, hilarious thinking person's guide to a world obsessed to the point of lunacy by celebrity: a guide to our times and a classic piece of comic writing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1846552591
• ISBN 13: 9781846552595
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256