Appreciation
Pieper, Liam2024
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Everything in this world has a price. A great work of art is no exception. And what fortune was ever built without a little subterfuge? Oli Darling is a queer artist from the country - it says so right at the top of every press release. His art has brought him fame, money, fashionable substance abuse issues and only a little imposter syndrome. But then he goes on live TV and says the one thing that can get a rich white guy cancelled. With his reputation in tatters, nobody is buying Oli's schtick or his art. That's a problem for all the people who've invested millions in him. Powerful, dangerous people. To save his own skin, Oli will need to restore his public image. Together with a ghostwriter, he must do the most undignified thing imaginable- he will have to write a memoir. So begins a journey through the underbelly of modern celebrity that sees Oli confront the consequences of his own ruthless mythmaking - lies he's told others, lies he's told himself. Perhaps he was right to feel like an imposter. And maybe the only way out is to take a good hard look at himself. Outrageous satire of the highest order, Appreciation sets its sights on the question of authenticity in a time where image trumps talent, narcissism rules, and no canvas is so tarnished it can't be painted over.
Appreciation / Liam Pieper.
Pieper, Liam, author
[Southbank, VIC] : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2024.©2024
357 pages ; 24 cm
97817608901939781760890193
A823.4
English
553600
Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | PIEP | Onloan - Due: 17 Oct 2024 |
Hampton Library | Adult Fiction - General | PIEP | Available |