A Star Is Bored, Byron Lane
A Star Is Bored, Byron Lane
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A Star Is Bored
A Novel

Author: Byron Lane

Narrator: Noah Galvin

Unabridged: 11 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/28/2020

Categories: Fiction, Humorous, Friendship


Synopsis

This program is read by Noah Galvin, who starred in The Good Doctor, Dear Evan Hansen, The Real O'Neals, and Booksmart.

"A Star is Bored is an absolute knockout. Riotously funny and wickedly tender."
— Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones and the Six

People Magazine Best Book of Summer 2020 - Named a Must-Read Summer book by Town & Country - Named One of the 14 Best Books of Summer 2020 by Harper's Bazaar - One of Library Journal's 2020 "Titles to Watch" - One of the 30 Best Beach Reads According to Parade Magazine

The Devil Wears Prada meets Postcards From the Edge in a hilariously heartfelt novel influenced in part by the author’s time assisting Carrie Fisher.

Charlie Besson is tense and sweating as he prepares for an insane job interview. His car is idling, like his life, outside the Hollywood mansion of Kathi Kannon, star of stage and screen and People magazine’s worst dressed list. She needs an assistant. He needs a hero.

Kathi is an icon, bestselling author, and an award winning actress, most known for her role as Priestess Talara in a blockbuster sci-fi film. She’s also known in another role: crazy. Admittedly so. Famously so. Fabulously so, as Charlie quickly discovers.

Their three year odyssey is filled with late night shopping sprees, last minute trips to see the aurora borealis, and an initiation to that most sacred of Hollywood tribes: the personal assistant. But Kathi becomes much more than a boss, and as their friendship grows, Charlie must make a choice. Will he always be on the sidelines of life, assisting the great forces that be, or can he step into his own leading role?

Laugh-out-loud funny, and searingly poignant, Byron Lane's A Star is Bored is a novel that, like the star at its center, is enchanting and joyous, heartbreaking and hopeful.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

About Byron Lane

Byron Lane is the author of A Star Is Bored, hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “wildly funny and irreverent.” He’s a playwright, screenwriter, Emmy Award–winning journalist, and former assistant to actress Carrie Fisher. He’s originally from New Orleans and lives in Palm Springs, California, with his husband, author Steven Rowley, and their rescue dogs, Raindrop and Shirley.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara

3.5 stars Byron Lane Byron Lane is an author, playwright, screenwriter, actor and former personal assistant to Carrie Fisher. Carrie Fisher This novel, about a news writer who gets a job as a personal assistant to actress Kathi Kannon, was clearly inspired by Lane's time with Fisher, though he takes pa......more

Goodreads review by Karen

“Take your broken heart and go make art. – Carrie Fisher” In real life, Byron Lane use to be the Personal Assistant to the late Carrie Fisher, so it makes sense that he can create a story featuring characters that mimic his life. This is his debut novel. It is not my first novel by him. I first read,......more

Goodreads review by Tucker

Many thanks to Macmillan Audio for the free audio copy in exchange for an honest review I read this book in my most recent booktube video which you can click here to watch or skip to 0:54 to here my thoughts on this specific book. | Goodreads | Blog | Pinterest | LinkedIn | YouTube......more

Goodreads review by Alfredo

4,5 Alerta de gatilho: Pensamentos suicidas, abuso de drogas. “A star is bored” é um livro de Byron Lane sobre um jovem gay e um tanto depressivo que se candidata para uma vaga de assistente pessoal de uma estrela de Hollywood e logo vê sua vida mudar completamente. O autor, ex-assistente de Carrie Fi......more