Cause Celeb by Ms Helen Fielding

Cause Celeb by Ms Helen Fielding

Cause Celeb--the critically acclaimed debut novel from a writer with a boundless grasp of the existential and the uproarious--has just landed in America. Deftly skewering the world of celebrity fundraising, Fielding has created an alternately comic and moving satire that straddles the glitter of media London and the horrors of an African refugee crisis.

Rosie Richardson, a twenty-something literary puffette, is in a totally non-functional relationship with an unevolved but irresistible adult male--a hotshot TV presenter who plunges her into the glitzy, bitchy, inane lifestyle of London's It people. Disillusioned with the celebrity world, Rosie escapes to run a refugee camp in the African jungle.

When famine strikes and a massive refugee influx heads for the camp, governments and agencies drag their heels. Bringing her former media savvy to the fore, realizing the only way to get food out fast is to bring celebrities first, Rosie turns to the life and man she fled to organize a star-studded emergency appeal from famine-racked Africa.

Seamlessly bridging cataclysm and farce through the insights of a modern-day everywoman, Cause Celeb crackles with insight into fame, passion, and altruism in our time.

HELEN FIELDING Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, University of Western Ontario, Canada ANNEMIE HALSEMA Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands GABRIELLE HILTMANN Lecturer in Philosophy, Basel University, Switzerland RACHEL JONES Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Dundee, UK DOROTHEA OLKOWSKI Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA ANNE RECIHOLD Professor of Philosophy, University of Flensburg, Germany CHRISTINA SCHUES Assistant Professor, University of Vechta, Germany JENNY SLATMAN Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Tilberg University, the Netherlands CATHRYN VASSELEU University of Technology, Sydney, Australia VERONICA VASTERLING Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands GAIL WEISS Associate Professor of Philosophy, George Washington University, USA

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ISBN 13	9780670894505
ISBN 10	0670894508
Title	Cause Celeb
Author	Ms Helen Fielding
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Viking Books
Year published	2001-01-29
Number of pages	352
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