Namedropper: A Novel (original 1998; edition 2000)

by Emma Forrest

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Meet Viva Cohen: her bedroom walls are plastered with posters of silver-screen legends, and underneath her school uniform she wears vintage thigh-high stockings. Her best friends are a drugged-out beauty queen and an aging rock star. She lives in London with her gay uncle Manny. A bitingly funny and fiercely intelligent first novel, "Namedropper" takes you on a rowdy romp from London to Los Angeles, where Viva and her two best friends search for love, experience, and Jack Nicholson. It's a wild ride as she uncovers the icon in every person she meets.… (more)

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Title:	Namedropper: A Novel
Authors:	Emma Forrest
Info:	Touchstone (2000), Edition: 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction Ed, Paperback, 240 pages
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Quirky first-hand look at a young girl growing up in London. She's obsessed with movie stars and drama. She falls in love with a pop star (a marginal gender-bender) and then, in a triumph of sorts, at the end, a real boy. The writing is superb and the voice is unforgettable (lots of 1990s pop references) but references to drugs, sex (off-screen), and self-mutilation) dictate that is not for every taste. (

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1998

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Viva Cohen

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"As Elizabeth was leaving she gave her mother a quick kiss and said 'Oh, Mother! Nick and I are now one for ever and ever.'" —Elizabeth Taylor, The Last Star, Kitty Kelley

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For E. Paul Sevigny, who tried to wash me clean

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He was a super-shiny boy and I liked the shape of him. Under the blanket. In the shower.

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Meet Viva Cohen: her bedroom walls are plastered with posters of silver-screen legends, and underneath her school uniform she wears vintage thigh-high stockings. Her best friends are a drugged-out beauty queen and an aging rock star. She lives in London with her gay uncle Manny. A bitingly funny and fiercely intelligent first novel, "Namedropper" takes you on a rowdy romp from London to Los Angeles, where Viva and her two best friends search for love, experience, and Jack Nicholson. It's a wild ride as she uncovers the icon in every person she meets.

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