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The Actress: A Novel Kindle Edition

by Amy Sohn (Author)

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A “fun, funny, steamy, and unputdownable” (Entertainment Weekly) new novel from bestselling author Amy Sohn, in which an ambitious young actress discovers that every marriage is a mystery and that sometimes the greatest performances don’t take place on screen.

When Hollywood heartthrob Steven Weller pulls Maddy Freed out of obscurity for a starring role in his newest Oscar-worthy film, she feels her career roaring onto the express track. Steven’s professional attention soon turns personal, and Maddy falls headlong into a fairytale romance with the world’s most eligible bachelor. She’s sure there’s no truth to the gay rumors that have followed him for years, but soon realizes she cannot afford to ask too many questions about his complicated past…

A “sexy and engaging” (Emma Straub) page-turner set in a tantalizing world of glamour and scandal, of red carpets and ruthless competition, of scheming agents and the prying eye of the press, The Actress sits “perfectly between Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays and Jackie Collins’s Hollywood Wives….A valuable contribution to the canon of Hollywood fiction” (Slate). Booklist calls it “addictive…This may well be Sohn’s breakout book.”

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File Size: 2720 KB
Print Length: 353 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (July 1, 2014)
Publication Date: July 1, 2014
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00HB62LOO
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #270,486 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #168 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Literary Fiction
- #2044 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Literary Fiction > Women's Fiction
- #2044 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Literary Fiction > Romance

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Not a terribly interesting or original story

By S. Maxwell on July 8, 2014

Format: Hardcover

Not a terribly interesting or original story. Minus the cellphones and the Internet, this book could have been written by Harold Robbins decades ago. An up and coming actress is swept off her feet by a fabulously wealthy (older) action movie star who has long been rumored (but never proven) to be gay. Are the rumors true? Does Steven marry Maddy because he desires her, or is she simply being cast in the role of wife so that Steven can continue to play the role of a straight guy?

The big reveal - spoiler alert here - is that husband Steven doesn't know who he really is or what he really wants. As Nathaniel Hawthorne, a vastly greater novelist, put it: "No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true." Steven has been playing a part in public so long that he no longer finds it easy to distinguish the part from who he really is. That's what Maddy learns in the end.

I won't reveal what she decides to do about it because, frankly, it's not that interesting. Both Steven and Maddy are spoiled, over-privileged, incredibly self-centered people compensated richly by the skewed economic system in which we live for doing jobs that are much less important than those of many people who barely get by. The feeling one has at the end of the book is not surprise but disgust at how much importance our society attaches to people who spend their time making bad movies for bored audiences. If you want to read a good book try one of Hawthorne's novels. He, at least, wrote about people who are doing something meaningful with their lives.

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A Good Beach Read

By book beach bunny on July 21, 2014

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It's not a bad read but yeah I kept thinking about George Clooney and his many, many girlfriends even his place in Italy which I have to admit took me out of the story so many times. It's also not very original which is in itself kind of sad. I thought the characterization was pretty good though. I alternated between hating Steven and feeling sorry for him between liking Maddy and wanting to slap her upside the head for being so dense. Her friends were excellent too although they all seemed to have a better read on her life than she did.
Some of the Hollywood stuff was fun to read. Merkins and all that but if you read the gossip pages none of it was really new and the end felt like it just kind of tapered off. A big revel... that doesn't happen...

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One Star

By Jimbo on October 29, 2015

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Slow and uneventful

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Getting Out of the Pidgeonhole

By WEB on May 29, 2015

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Wow. This novel is just beyond what I expected when I bought it shelving it far back on the TBR list. It's not fun or flighty. Its characters are subject to other world pressures dictated by the public eye, but the novel reads like a well-written, far-sighted biography, for these characters cannot see what is so close or important, what is real or true. They can see the distant possibilities, the promise of the future...if they are clothed and styled correctly. Maddy frustrated me for much of the novel...her constant, almost assertive grasp of her situation, which continuously waffles in the wake of her desire to be loved in the limelight and by a man perceived as mature. Much akin to the movies Maddy wants to write and act in, the novel is very much a character study. It is not a romance. Many of the sex scenes read as if they are "blocked" for stage - in a way that accentuates the mechanics of the act, one that eventually has the actress questioning what she really needs/wants in order to live fully. While Maddy comes to terms with the way in which she's been manipulated...and the way she's "allowed herself" to be manipulated, i.e. she matures...Sohn still creates an ending where there is reader empathy for all parties, or at least I felt empathy for both Maddy and Steven. I'd love to see this one in the theater - live or filmed. I would not cast Cruise but maybe Holmes.

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Entertaining

By Maxwell03 on August 31, 2014

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I confess to enjoying pop culture and celebrity gossip a bit too much, and I always wonder how much of the gossip is based on fact and whether the celebreties are fooling and manipulating the public with their various couplings, marriages and affairs. This novel is an entertaining look at a Hollywood couple's complicated relationship, our tabloid-obsessed culture and the lengths some people will resort to in order to maintain their image.

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Disappointed

By Grapevine Stomper on July 19, 2014

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Was excited to read this book; however came away disappointed. It read like the author gathered up all of the gossipy innuendos about a few major male movie stars and decided to combine them into the male lead. No real story-line, young (stupid) wife and I ended up not caring about any of the characters. Kept waiting for a "twist" or some emotional development ... Which never came.

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I absolutely enjoyed its storyline

By Margaret on September 6, 2014

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This book was intriguing from beginning to end. I absolutely enjoyed its storyline.

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Just Okay

By Lynn K on October 1, 2014

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Just okay....I was disappointed in the lack of any great plot...very predictable.

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Such a bad book

This was the dumbest book I have ever read. I am almost embarrassed that I finished it. I didn't like Steven and I absolutely loathed Maddy. Read more

Published 5 months ago by S Lockhart

Jackie Collins does it better

Not a good read, slow, plodding and you end up not liking the main or even secondary character. Which means you don't want to continue reading

Published 13 months ago by Joanna M. Zachman

Excellent..

Excellent..... Snarky at times, but overall entertaining. Once I started it, it was hard to push down. Read more

Published 13 months ago by NicoleCD

Fairly interesting story. She had been through so much ...

Fairly interesting story.She had been through so much. I thought that she should have stayed with Steven.

Published 14 months ago by Phyllis D Davidson

It's ok.

Published 14 months ago by Charlene

fun summer read

fast, fun summer read. good for planes and vacations..

Published 14 months ago by Amazon Customer

One Star

This novel isn't my favorite by Amy Sohn. It is a bit long and not the most interesting read.

Published 15 months ago by elisabeth kannenberg

No picnic

Personally, I felt the book was jaded, pessimistic and unrealistic. There were smoky unveiled nods to celebrities that may be living secret contract marriages, that I just don't... Read more

Published 15 months ago by Yasmin H. McEwen

Unreadable!

Absolutely unreadable, am I stupid? Couldn't make heads or tails...

Published 15 months ago by Daisy Markus Pinto

Skip It

I had such a difficult time with this book. It's poorly written and none of the characters are likable. It's like if USWeekly wrote a book, but with none of the fun.

Published 16 months ago by T. Voyles

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