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THE PLUS-ONE IBD

7/21 BOOKS
11 / 2024
9798218474515
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Sinopsis

The Plus-One is about life on the periphery of fame, but it?s also a compelling family drama, a comic coming-of-age tale, and a fizzy musical memoir set during the final throes of the pre-digital 20th century. Starting in the backseat of Courtney Love?s limo and then shifting deeper into the past, The Plus-One is the story of David Klein, a music-obsessed bumbler finally granted the backstage access he craves and determined to make the most of it-even if that means being dissed by Gwyneth Paltrow and Marilyn Manson in the same epic, mortifying night. Whether he?s singing bossa nova with Philip Seymour Hoffman, stealing a woman?s shoe with a just-pre-fame Johnny Depp, or sharing a life-changing cigarette break with Lady Gaga, The Plus-One is told with a blend of acid wit and warm humanity.Alternating among celebrity encounters-with such pop culture icons as Winona Ryder, Ringo Starr, Bono, Arthur Miller, Phil Spector, and Tom Petty-are sharp-eyed recollections of long-gone demimondes: 1970s suburbia, AIDS-era New York City, and the workaday world of ?90s office culture that blinked into existence in the hangover of those glitzy nights out. Throughout, a picture emerges of a young man learning to quit measuring himself against his own life?s famous guest stars and settle in to growing up.

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