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Beschreibung

Andrew O''Hagan''s second novel, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, is a powerful tale about society, celebrity and self-destruction.

Maria Tambini is a thirteen-year-old girl with a great singing voice. Growing up on a small Scottish island, she is ready for the big time and keen to escape her ordinary life. When she wins a national TV talent show, she becomes an instant star, yet all the time ''the girl with the giant voice'' is losing herself in fame and in a private battle with her own body. Can Maria be saved by love or is she destined to be consumed by celebrity, by family secrets, and by her number-one fan?

''Enormously impressive, frequently curious and consistently ambitious.'' Sunday Times

''What he manages brilliantly is allowing us only restricted access to Maria''s mind, so that the reader is put in something like the same relation to her as the sharkish agents and managers who suck her dry.'' Guardian

''Such command, such grace, and such compassion.'' New York Review of Books

Andrew O''Hagan''s second novel, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, is a powerful tale about society, celebrity and self-destruction.

Maria Tambini is a thirteen-year-old girl with a great singing voice. Growing up on a small Scottish island, she is ready for the big time and keen to escape her ordinary life. When she wins a national TV talent show, she becomes an instant star, yet all the time ''the girl with the giant voice'' is losing herself in fame and in a private battle with her own body. Can Maria be saved by love or is she destined to be consumed by celebrity, by family secrets, and by her number-one fan?

''Enormously impressive, frequently curious and consistently ambitious.'' Sunday Times

''What he manages brilliantly is allowing us only restricted access to Maria''s mind, so that the reader is put in something like the same relation to her as the sharkish agents and managers who suck her dry.'' Guardian

''Such command, such grace, and such compassion.'' New York Review of Books

Über den Autor
Andrew O'Hagan
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780571217755
ISBN-10: 0571217753
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: O'Hagan, Andrew
Auflage: Main
Hersteller: Faber & Faber
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 128 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Andrew O'Hagan
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2004
Gewicht: 0,234 kg
Artikel-ID: 102511128