Hollywood, Ending
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4.4 • 57 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Instant #1 New York Times bestseller!
Bestselling author John Green makes his much-anticipated return to fiction with a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story about finding someone to trust in an untrustworthy world.
“Wise, tender and engaging.” —People, Book of the Week
“Sharply relevant in today’s landscape of constant attention and the pressure of a public life.” —TODAY, Reading Picks for Fall
“Green’s storytelling is astute, empathic, and magnetizing.” —Booklist, starred review
For rising talents Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo, being cast in the buzzy biopic Andy Warhol Never Gets Old is the opportunity they’ve both been waiting for. They’re on the verge of breaking out, and maybe even falling in love. Soon, the movie is blowing up, and so are their lives—in exciting, but also terrifying, ways.
John Green artfully blends a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story with an unflinching examination of the insatiable attention economy. Told through dual points of view, the novel brilliantly juxtaposes the on-screen study of Warhol’s life at the dawn of celebrity culture with the intimate struggles of two young people figuring out who they are, both together and alone.
Tender, heartbreaking, and shrewdly funny, this is a story as only Green can tell it. Hollywood, Ending is a deeply observed novel about the tension between a public and a private life, and the audacity to pursue the kind of love we all deserve.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
John Green seamlessly transitions from YA to adult fiction with an insightful novel about what happens when fame makes your private life everybody else’s business. Juniper, a former child star, and first-time actor Kai get cast in a hotly anticipated movie about pop artist Andy Warhol. The two form a special connection as they work together, but they’re both still carrying baggage they haven’t fully dealt with. From the table read to the publicity campaign, the lived-in details of the filmmaking process provide a textured framework for Juniper and Kai’s love story. But Green is even more compelling when he’s showing us their interior worlds. Between Juniper’s childhood with her alcoholic stage mother and Kai’s experiences with grooming and abuse, their desires have been dictated to them by others. Discovering what they truly want for themselves—especially in the public eye—is a poignant and complicated process. Warhol famously predicted that everyone would get 15 minutes of fame. Green cleverly asks what happens when those 15 minutes never really end.
Customer Reviews
Tender existentialism at its best
I am admittedly a long time Green fan. And this did not disappoint. Green writes intelligently and immersively to transport you into a world few of us will ever know - but then weaves the common human search for identity, self comprehension, and belonging/acceptance into every page. He handles trauma with the care of a chaplain, and gives voice yet again to complex intersections of living and living the life we get and make. I give this work, 5 stars ☺️