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Kensington
February 2005
On Sale: February 1, 2005
Featuring: Toby Griffin
272 pages
ISBN: 0758206178
EAN: 9780758206176
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In the tradition of Bright Lights, Big City and Less Than
Zero, Tom Dolby has written a searing debut novel about
going after what you really want without losing yourself in
the process. Powerfully written, keenly felt, The Trouble
Boy heralds an exciting new voice in fiction. "This is about
fame and celebrity and the lengths to which people will go
to have a taste of it..." At twenty-two, Toby Griffin wants it all-fame, fortune, an
Oscar-winning screenplay and a good-looking boyfriend by his
side. For now, what he's got is a freelance writing job at a
tanking online magazine, a walk-up sublet in the East
Village and "the boys," a young posse of preppy Upper East
Siders with a taste for high fashion, top-shelf liquor and
other men. But for Toby, downing vodka cranberries and falling in and
out of lust with a series of guys he knows as Subway Boy,
Loft Boy and Goth Boy is getting old. So is being pursued by
his best friend Jamie while secretly desiring his co-worker,
Donovan, a sexual adventurer who seems intent on conducting
his own Kinsey report in bedrooms across the city. That all
changes when Toby gets the chance of a lifetime-working as a
personal assistant to hip, ruthless film mogul, Cameron Cole. Picking up Cameron's steamed veggies and typing up his memos
is Toby's entrée to the big time, moving in a dizzying crowd
of celebrities and power makers. Suddenly he's swilling
champagne with scenemakers like publicist Ariana Richards,
Hollywood bombshell Jordan Gardner, and club performer Lola
Copacabana. In this decadent, drug-fueled world of VIP lounges, endless
networking and relentless hype, Toby discovers that nothing
is what is seems and that anything and anyone can be spun
into PR gold. Though he's making friends with all the right
people. Toby realizes that succeeding in Manhattan isn't as
easy as he thought-until the one tragic night that changes
his future forever and puts him in a position of power he
never could have imagined. But with Toby's name suddenly becoming Page Six material,
his life is coming unglued. And as his professional contacts
betray him and his friends reveal troubling secrets, his
choices become that much harder-and that much more
important. Now, in his first year on his own, Toby Griffin
is about to learn the price of getting everything he ever
wanted...
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