Jacko (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed,Remainder mark
From one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes Jacko, a bold and irreverent novel that thrusts readers into the glittering, morally ambiguous world of international television. The story chronicles the rise of Jacko Emptor, a larger-than-life Australian larrikin who parlays his raw charisma and working-class bravado into a career as a global media sensation, as seen through the eyes of his long-suffering confidant and biographer. Tom Keneally maps the collision between authentic Australian identity and the voracious, image-hungry machine of American celebrity culture with sharp, satirical precision. Keneally, best known for Schindler's Ark, brings the same unflinching moral intelligence to this wickedly comic tale, interrogating the cost of fame, the commodification of personality, and the uneasy relationship between truth and performance. His prose crackles with wit and vitality, holding a funhouse mirror up to a culture that consumes its heroes as readily as it creates them. Whether Jacko is the ultimate self-made man or the ultimate fraud is a question the novel tantalisingly refuses to answer — and that ambiguity is precisely what makes it so compelling.
Author: Tom Keneally
Format: Hardback
Published: 1993, William Heinemann Australia
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed,Remainder mark
From one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes Jacko, a bold and irreverent novel that thrusts readers into the glittering, morally ambiguous world of international television. The story chronicles the rise of Jacko Emptor, a larger-than-life Australian larrikin who parlays his raw charisma and working-class bravado into a career as a global media sensation, as seen through the eyes of his long-suffering confidant and biographer. Tom Keneally maps the collision between authentic Australian identity and the voracious, image-hungry machine of American celebrity culture with sharp, satirical precision. Keneally, best known for Schindler's Ark, brings the same unflinching moral intelligence to this wickedly comic tale, interrogating the cost of fame, the commodification of personality, and the uneasy relationship between truth and performance. His prose crackles with wit and vitality, holding a funhouse mirror up to a culture that consumes its heroes as readily as it creates them. Whether Jacko is the ultimate self-made man or the ultimate fraud is a question the novel tantalisingly refuses to answer — and that ambiguity is precisely what makes it so compelling.