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A Year In The Life Of A Hollywood Nobody
Kensington
May 2005
223 pages ISBN: 0758209185 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
At
forty, Claire Fordham is at a crossroads. The divorced
British mom has
raised two mostly well-adjusted kids and worked as a
journalist. But
after a lifetime of looking after everyone else, she's ready
to live a
bit. So she says goodbye to England and moves to L.A. to
live with her
sister, respected songwriter Julia Fordham. Her first job is
taking
care of Julia's highly neurotic dog, Muttley, a "four-legged
freak of
nature" who, when he isn't destroying her shoes or mounting
anything on
legs, compulsively licks his anus. Welcome to Hollywood.
What
follows is a year-long, laugh-out-loud story of a stranger
in a very,
very strange land. As Julia's "Plus One"--the
nameless guest
invited to
openings and parties Claire experiences life in the shadow
of celebrity
in a town where nothing is too surreal. From clairvoyants
who get
everything wrong, partygoers who are disappointed that
Claire and Julia
are sisters, not lesbians, Pink Witch parties, legendary
icons in the
garden, and people whose pets have their own lawyers on
retainer to
meeting Hollywood royalty, inventing fantasy boyfriends,
playing roadie
in exotic locales, falling for the wrong guys and possibly
meeting the
right man, Claire's on a rollercoaster ride in which no
dream is too
wild, no adventure too outrageous, and no information too
personal to
divulge over fashionable coffee. And in a town where
anything can
happen and usually does, Claire might just find everything
she ever
wanted-if she can survive it.
Candid, ribald, and sweetly optimistic,
Plus One is a delicious tale of Tinseltown insanity
and one woman's journey from Hollywood Nobody to somebody in
her own right.
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