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Covergirl: Confessions of a Flawed Hedonist [Kindle Edition]

Maura Moynihan (Autor)
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Modern Renaissance woman Moynihan's first novel (after story collection Yoga Hotel), confusingly labeled as "reality fiction," follows international party girl Veronica Ferris, who must decide whether she will "join the ranks of commoners and go nine to five, or remain on extended vacation." She burns out on her gossip column-worthy lifestyle-nightly clubs, dates with a rock star-and returns to Asia where she spent her "magical childhood" as a diplomat's daughter. She begins volunteering at an orphanage in Nepal, only to become disillusioned by the artificiality of American altruism in the third world. Eventually, karma rewards Veronica's good intentions and she ends up combining her two loves: partying and helping people, as director of the philanthropic trust of her father's estate, throwing parties for charity. Though Moynihan's novel is filled with exotic and incongruous settings-New York nightclubs and Buddhist temples, fashion photo shoots and Tibetan orphanages-the heroine's self-righteous streak spoils the story's potential charm.
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Maura Moynihan's first novel, Covergirl, blends reality and fiction in a brilliant and exciting roman à clef that draws richly from the author's own adventures as a Warhol Girl and from her many years of working with Tibetan refugees in Asia.

Meet Veronica Ferris, the daughter of an imperious socialite and a kindly but absent diplomat. Fresh out of college, Veronica lands in Manhattan in pursuit of romance, disco, and rock 'n' roll—an arrival that threatens to usurp her mother's ambitious assault on New York high society. Maintaining her "double life" as a talented partygoer and a bearer of the esteemed Ferris family name is a high-wire act that requires far more cunning and restraint than young Veronica initially realizes. With its unforgettable heroine and wry, highly entertaining voice, Covergirl is at once a poignant coming-of-age tale, a delightful social satire, and a vibrant modern-day odyssey.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • Dateigröße: 281 KB
  • Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe: 272 Seiten
  • ISBN-Quelle für Seitenzahl: 0060756608
  • Verlag: HarperCollins e-books (21. April 2009)
  • Verkauf durch: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ASIN: B0026772V0
  • Text-to-Speech (Vorlesemodus): Aktiviert

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lampoons the let them eat cake lifestyle of the rich and famous 2. August 2006
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In the 1980s upon graduating from college, Veronica Ferris returns to Manhattan where her mom the "New Helena" attends parties for the upper crust and her father John occasionally returns from diplomatic posts in Katmandu, Zimbabwe, or some other locale that his wife avoids. Helena is displeased with the return of the prodigal daughter who acts anything but the proper debutante from her "shoe-polished" hair to her freaky footwear. Instead, Veronica acts like a rebellette without a cause as she struggles with keeping the family reputation in high society while doing the disco scene.

At a disco bash at Luna Ticks, John Penn, renowned cover artist of Page magazine, meets Veronica. He decides she would look great as his next cover model. Through Page magazine, Veronica meets cover peer rock star Davey Name. They begin a secret tryst that is exposed by the media. Needing to escape the frenzy, Veronica volunteers at an orphanage in Katmandu where she blunders into a free Tibet movement seeking a covergirl, preferably homegrown.

COVERGIRL: CONFESSIONS OF A FLAWED HEDONIST lampoons the let them eat cake lifestyle of the rich and famous, shreds the American superiority complex, and tears apart the media celebrity frenzy while providing a fun coming of age satirical tale. Veronica is a fascinating protagonist as she walks a thin line between the family reputation and adhering to Lauper philosophy that "Girls Just Want to Have Fun". At times the plot can go over the Himalayans, but no one will care as the heroine struggles to enjoy life yet do the right thing to make her dad hold her in high regard not understanding that as his beloved offspring he always will regardless of what she does.

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Boring! 24. November 2006
Von applebaum8 - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I saw Maura Moynihan on the Today show and I got the false impression that this book was the biography of her interesting life spent abroad. I was half was through the book wondering why the author continued to refer to herself in the 3rd person before it hit me that this book was fiction.

The book has so many characters that aren't developed so it's hard to remember who is who. Then the author inserts all these weird photos of herself in the book that have nothing to do with the story. She wrote a blurb in the front of the book explaining she followed some "style" of writing that allows for this, yeah whatever.

The book has 4 parts to it, for the 4 different countries it takes place in. I got through 3 parts and it was a difficult slow read because I was so bored and never got to know the main character to even get a liking for her. The whole book is one conversation after another with a dozen different people with no real insight to what the main character is thinking.

Don't be fooled by the pretty cover art, this book isn't worth the read.

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