Sleb

Sleb

by Andrew Holmes (Author)

Synopsis

Here's a top tip for the heavy drinker...Never get drunk and force your way into the home of the country's biggest pop star wielding a gun. It's bound to go off, big time. Christopher Sewell is famous. He used to be an advertising sales executive with a wife, a drink problem and not much more. Now he's serving life for the murder of Felix Carter, who used to be a famous pop star with an acting career, a drink problem and the world at his feet. Only he's dead now. How and why Chris killed Felix is a mystery. Until, that is, he agrees to give a single interview from prison. Just the one interview, mind. You know what these celebrities are like...Tremendously sharp and at times laugh-out-loud, this is a delicious satire about celebrities and their fans, and the way the media attempts both to satisfy and to inflame our obsession with success.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: First Thus
Publisher: Sceptre
Published: 04 Jul 2002

ISBN 10: 0340823607
ISBN 13: 9780340823606

Media Reviews
'I think we could finally be looking at Britain's answer to Bret Easton Ellis. And about time too. Holmes has given us not only a first class satire on the cost and price of fame but an unglamourised image of the modern man in the self destructive - but ultimatley likeable - Chris Sewell. Encore please.' Sam Oliver, Fiction Buyer, Waterstone's Newcastle; Chock-full of cultural references. American Psycho for the new century - with laughs - Steve Birt, Assistant Manager, Ottakar's, Gloucester
Author Bio
Andrew Holmes is a freelance journalist. He is 32-years-old and lives with his wife in Stoke Newington. SLEB is his first novel.