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Description for Namedropper
Paperback. Meet Viva Cohen: a teenage schoolgirl bombshell. Her best friends are a drugged-out beauty queen and an ageing rock-star, and she lives in London with her gay uncle, Manny. But then she sets out in search of real love, experience and Jack Nicholson. Wicked-tongued, star-fixated Viva is like no other girl - and this is no ordinary summer. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; YFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 197 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 194.
Meet Viva Cohen: a teenage schoolgirl bombshell. 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 ageing rock-star, and she lives in London with her gay uncle, Manny. Viva spends her days gate-crashing gigs, skiving her exams and trying to live life as glamorously as her number one icon, Elizabeth Taylor. But then she sets out on a pilgrimage: in search of real love, experience and Jack Nicholson. Wicked-tongued, star-fixated, clever and restless, Viva is like no other girl ... Read more
Meet Viva Cohen: a teenage schoolgirl bombshell. 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 ageing rock-star, and she lives in London with her gay uncle, Manny. Viva spends her days gate-crashing gigs, skiving her exams and trying to live life as glamorously as her number one icon, Elizabeth Taylor. But then she sets out on a pilgrimage: in search of real love, experience and Jack Nicholson. Wicked-tongued, star-fixated, clever and restless, Viva is like no other girl ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747564140
SKU
V9780747564140
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5
About Emma Forrest
Emma Forrest began her writing career as a journalist, contributing to the Sunday Times, Independent, Guardian and Saturday Telegraph magazine. Her recent second novel, Thin Skin, was published in 2002 by Bloomsbury. She is twenty five years old and lives in Manhattan, where she is at work on her third novel.
Reviews for Namedropper
'Still stands up as a brilliant read' Sunday Times