- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber (5 Nov 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 057120936X
- ISBN-13: 978-0571209361
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.2 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,022,205 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Imagine having famous actors for parents. And grandparents. Imagine that while they bask in the limelight, you feel consigned to the role of second spear-carrier in the tired repertory production of your own life. Imagine being lied-to, tricked and manipulated by the actors in your family until you reach your wit's end. You too might develop a grudge against 'the profession'. Set in Beverly Hills, the world capital of narcissism, Me Me Me concerns itself with three generations of an Anglo-American acting family. Ralph Tait returns to LA after an absence of eight years to complete his grandfather's long-overdue memoirs. When Donald Tait goes missing shortly after his seventy-sixth birthday, it begins to look as if his autobiography may hold the key to some darker family secrets and, as Ralph uncovers some painful truths about his family and himself, the novel accelerates towards its inevitable conclusion. A ferocious black comedy that explores the effects of raging egomania in an acting family, Me Me Me is the best novel to date from the acclaimed author of The Big Kiss.
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David Huggins was born in London. His parents and grandparents all acted, as did his uncle. Both his father and grandfather lived for some time in Los Angeles. Me Me Me is his third novel and follows the acclaimed The Big Kiss and Luxury Amnesia.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Am a big fan of the first two novels which were excellent so looked forward to the third novel. The storyline wasn't as exciting as that in the previous books and was a tad slow in places and the characters were at times too stereotypical of the Californian/ L.A. scene. However the author at times finishes some passages of text with a unique and superb descriptive flourish that inevitably prompts immediate rereading for the moment to be savoured.
I echo Stephen Fry in that Huggins is clearly one of the 'tiny category of must-read contempory British novelists'. I highly recommend the previous novels The Big Kiss and Luxury Amnesia that are excellent novels based in the more familiar british culture.
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I gave up after 80 pages. I just wasn't interesed in these people at all.
Sometimes a book can be about people you don't like or care about, and keep you interested anyway. This one failed to do that for me. There was probably some kind of mystery coming, which I didn't really get into, but I found these narcissists just too dull and irrelevant. Good writer with the wrong subject, perhaps.
Sometimes a book can be about people you don't like or care about, and keep you interested anyway. This one failed to do that for me. There was probably some kind of mystery coming, which I didn't really get into, but I found these narcissists just too dull and irrelevant. Good writer with the wrong subject, perhaps.
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