Star Is Bored, Paperback by Lane, Byron, ISBN 1250266505, ISBN-13 9781250266507, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

<p><b>"<i>A Star is Bored</i> is an absolute knockout. Riotously funny and wickedly tender."</b><br><b>— Taylor Jenkins Reid, <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>Daisy Jones and the Six <br><br></i></b> <b>"Wildly funny and irreverent... Lane’s writing lifts the novel far above its gossamer Hollywood setting, suffusing [the novel] with a complex sensitivity."<br>- <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <br><br></b> A hilariously heartfelt novel influenced in part by the author’s time assisting Carrie Fisher. <br><br><b><i>People Magazine</i> Best Book of Summer 2020 - Named a Must-Read Summer book by <i>Town & Country</i> - Named One of the 14 Best Books of Summer 2020 by <i>Harper's Bazaar</i> - One of <i>Library Journal</i>'s 2020 "Titles to Watch" - One of the 30 Best Beach Reads According to <i>Parade Magazine</i></b><br><br>She needs an assistant. <br>He needs a hero. <br><br>Charlie Besson is tense and sweating as he prepares for a wild job interview. His car is idling, like his life, outside the Hollywood mansion of Kathi Kannon, star of stage and screen and <i>People</i> magazine’s Worst Dressed list. She's an actress in need of assistance, and he's adrift and in need of a lifeline.<br><br>Kathi is an icon, bestselling author, and award-winning movie star, most known for her role as Priestess Talara in a blockbuster sci-fi film. She’s also known in another role: Outrageous Hollywood royalty. Admittedly so. Famously so. Chaotically so, as Charlie quickly discovers. <br><br>Charlie gets the job, and his 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 life's leading role?<br><br>Laugh-out-loud funny, and searingly poignant, Byron Lane's <i>A Star is Bored</i> is a novel that, like the star at its center, is enchanting and joyous, heartbreaking and hopeful.</p>