Book description
A stunning novel about celebrity and the price of fame from a
Pulitzer-shortlisted playwright and the creator of hit series SMASH.
It was the photograph in the New Yorker which started it all. They were
three young, beautiful, red-haired girls, there granddaughters of a
literary lion. They were News. But it was the row over the youngest's
reaction to the attentions from one of Hollywood's biggest stars that
made them Celebrities.
The family - the three sisters, their brother, their mother, their
normally absent father - are sucked into a whirlwind of agents,
producers, managers, photo shoots, paparazzi, journalists, stylists,
parties, shows, a maelstrom they have no idea how to control.
The three girls - and their brother, an uneasy observer - experiment
with life and change, and learn to survive, each of them differently.
Each of them pays a different price in their relationship with each
other, with their parents and in their beliefs in themselves and the
civilisation around them.
Three Girls and their Brother is a novel to devour. The story is
compelling, sometimes cutting, sometimes touching. The characters leap
widely off the page. The setting and portrait of the celebrity scene is
completely convincing, busy and yet intimate. Theresa Rebeck's first
novel is a triumph. Theresa Rebeck is an American stage, screen,
television, and radio writer. She was born in Ohio and graduated from
Cincinnati's Ursuline Academy in 1976. She did her BA at the University
of Notre Dame in 1980, and followed that with three degrees from
Brandeis University: an MA in 1983, a M. F.A. in 1986, and a Ph. D. in
Victorian era melodrama, in 1989.
