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Uninvited
- Author
- Adrian Maher
- Narrator
- Adrian Maher
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 4 February 2020
- Run Time
- 9 hours 7 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Humour, Popular culture, Memoirs
What to expect
Drawing on more than twenty years of interviews, anecdotes, and personal experiences, Uninvited recounts the unique journey of a former Los Angeles Times reporter who, struggling with the collapse of his industry and personal tragedies, falls in with a group of intrepid gatecrashers who routinely pierce Tinseltown’s celebrity party circuit.
Author Adrian Maher is the first to chronicle this unique subterranean culture in La La Land—a group of social strivers, ambitious outliers, compulsive risk-takers, and dysfunctional characters seeking access to a famous and exclusive society from which they’ve been banned.
Uninvited uses all the author’s skills as a veteran reporter, television producer, private investigator, archivist, and humorous storyteller to reveal the unseen capers, snafus, and mishaps behind Hollywood’s palace gates against a backdrop of America’s fascination with celebrity culture. And it exposes the personal struggles of an adrenaline-addicted gatecrasher facing perpetual moral challenges, physical dangers, and psychological stressors that culminate in near disaster.
Critics Review
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“Fun and fab comedic tattletale—an insiders peek into VIP life by former LA Times writer Adrian Maher, has celebs out shopping for a copy to see if they’re included.”
Beverly Hills Times
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“An uproarious account of his party-crashing adventures…Consider this your formal invitation to enjoy his madcap memoir.”
Peter Richardson, author of No Simple Highway
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“Takes us on a joyous romp through backstage Hollywood dodging security, public relations flacks, and his own conscience…Deliciously subversive.”
James Rainey, senior reporter, Los Angeles Times
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“A wackadoodle journey over, under, and around the velvet rope. A laugh-a-minute page-turner as dramatic as any multimillion-dollar blockbuster. Hilarious, gripping, and revealing.”
Bill Kalmenson, host of podcast A Rebel Without Applause
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Details
- Author
- Adrian Maher
- Narrator
- Adrian Maher
- Duration
- 9 hours 7 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 February 2020
- ISBN
- 9781094086583
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Humour, Popular culture, Memoirs
Synopsis
Drawing on more than twenty years of interviews, anecdotes, and personal experiences, Uninvited: Confessions of a Hollywood Party Crasher recounts the unique journey of a former Los Angeles Times reporter who, struggling with the collapse of his industry and personal tragedies, falls in with a group of intrepid gatecrashers who routinely pierce Tinseltown’s celebrity party circuit. Author Adrian Maher is the first to chronicle this unique subterranean culture in La La Land—a group of social strivers, ambitious outliers, compulsive risk-takers, and dysfunctional characters seeking access to a famous and exclusive society from which they’ve been banned.Uninvited uses all the author’s skills as a veteran reporter, television producer, private investigator, archivist, and humorous storyteller to reveal the unseen capers, snafus, and mishaps behind Hollywood’s palace gates against a backdrop of America’s fascination with celebrity culture. And it exposes the personal struggles of an adrenaline-addicted gatecrasher facing perpetual moral challenges, physical dangers, and psychological stressors that culminate in near disaster.
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