<P><B>A shocking crime triggers a media firestorm for a controversial talk-show host in this provocative novel — a story of redemption a nostalgic portrait of New York City and a searing indictment of our culture of spectacle.</B></B></p><P>Talk-show host Matthew Miller has made his fame by shining a spotlight on the most unlikely and bizarre secrets of society exposing them on live television in front of millions of gawking viewers. However the man behind <I>The Mattie M Show</i> remains a mystery — both to his enormous audience and to those who work alongside him every day. But when the high school students responsible for a mass shooting are found to be devoted fans Mattie is thrust into the glare of public scrutiny seen as the wry detached herald of a culture going downhill and going way too far. Soon the secrets of Mattie’s past as a brilliant young politician in a crime-ridden New York City begin to push their way to the surface.</P><P>In her most daring and multidimensional novel yet Jennifer duBois vividly portrays the heyday of gay liberation in the '70s and the grip of the AIDS crisis in the '80s alongside a backstage view of '90s television in an age of moral panic. DuBois explores an enigmatic man’s downfall through the perspectives of two spectators — Cel Mattie’s skeptical publicist and Semi the disillusioned lover from his past.</P><P>With wit heart and crackling intelligence <I>The Spectators</I> examines the human capacity for reinvention — and forces us to ask ourselves what we choose to look at and why.</P>
Title | The Spectators |
Author | Jennifer duBois |
Narrator | Paul Boehmer Nancy Linari |
Media | Audiobooks |
Genre | General Fiction |
ISBN | 9780804164924 |
Published | 2019-04-02 |
Stock | In stock |
Duration | 12 hours 46 minutes |