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

by Marina Hyde

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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.

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Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over The World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy Paperback ISBN: 9780099532057 Published: 15/04/2010 Imprint: Vintage Extent: 256 pages Subject: Humour $19.95 RRP Buy Now
Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over The World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781846552595 Published: 15/05/2009 Imprint: Harvill Secker Extent: 256 pages Subject: Humour $34.95 RRP Buy Now

Synopsis

Do you wonder where it’s all going to end? Does the word ‘celebrity’ sound like a great name for a fifth horseman of the apocalypse? Do you doubt there’s even time to build a fallout shelter? Then this book is for you: an invaluable primer to the celebriscape, a world expanding twice as fast as the universe it inhabits.Celebrity is a coruscating, hilarious, thinking person’s guide to a world in which it is considered reasonable that Angelina Jolie advises on the Iraqi reconstruction effort, Charlie Sheen analyses 9/11, and in which Jude Law’s views on the Taliban are taken seriously. Anatomising every aspect of our crazed world, Celebrity tackles the big topics, including ‘Celebrity Activism – when celebrities care’, ‘Celebrities and the Middle East: a troubled region’s brightest hope?’, and ‘Celebrity Religions: who do the worshipped worship?’.

Editorial Reviews

"Frequently hilarious, with incredibly bleak undertones" - Arwa Haider, Metro

"it is so funny and sharp" - New Stateman

"This hilarious romp through modern culture by the Guardian columnist highlights the bizarre reach of hollow fame these days... Shudder-inducingly funny" - The Big Issue

"Certainly thought-provoking" - Max Clifford, The Observer

"Much of Hyde's material will be familiar...made me laugh out loud...outrageous and opening" - Guardian

"An excoriating, needle-sharp and superbly funny attack on 'stars' who abuse their fame." - The Hit List, Metro

"She is one of those rare writers who are the same in person as they are on the page, damn good fun. [...] It's a brilliant read, a surreal whistle-stop tour through the rogues' gallery of 21st century celebrities." - Chitra Ramaswamy, Scotland on Sunday

"A smart, sassy and brilliantly funny deflation of some Zeppelin-sized egos." - Christopher Hart, Sunday Times

"Hyde presents a compelling and well backed-up argument that real damage is being done...funny, fast and ultimately frightening" - Jon Horner, Leeds Guide

"Thought-provoking" - Max Clifford, Observer

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