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  Personality (Paperback) By (author) Andrew O'Hagan

  

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  Short Description for PersonalityMaria Tambini is a 13-year-old girl with an amazing singing voice. Growing up in the 1970s above her mother's chip shop on the Scottish island of Bute, she is making ready to escape the ordinary life to become a living exhibit in the modern drama of celebrity.
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  • Publisher: Faber and Faber
  • Published: 01 April 2004
  • Format: Paperback 327 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780571217755 ISBN 10: 0571217753
  • Sales rank: 355,468

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• Growing up on the Scottish Isle of Bute, Maria Tambini is a young girl with dreams of escape from her Italian immigrant family. When her amazing singing voice wins her a talent show at the tender age of thirteen, she is whisked off to London and instant stardom. But even as Maria is celebrating her greatest success, she is waging a hidden battle against her own body, and becoming in the process a living exhibit in the modern drama of celebrity. Can she be saved by love? Or will she be consumed by an obsessive celebrity culture, family lies, and by her number-one fan? This stunning novel is a rich portrait of an immigrant community and a tragic tale of the hidden costs of celebrity.