A struggling and not-so-young advertising creative, Anakin Carvermeets Natasha von Ottmann, an up and coming actress working on his newcampaign, and accidentally makes her famous.
Now romantically involved with a celebrity, Carver finds himselfconnected into the landscape of popular media and entertainment; alabyrinth of mistrust, petty politics and desperate grasps for power.As he becomes instrumental in the struggle for cultural dominance,Natasha must choose between fame and idealism.
“Everything Is True. Nothing Is Permitted.”
In a time of unrest and social change, Anakin Carver may become oneof the most influential figures never known. As civilization movestoward both utopia and ruin, all it may need is a subtle push in eitherdirection.
Written in an exciting new format of thirteen “episodes”, ratherthan traditional chapters, STOCKHOLM is designed to be enjoyed like afull season of a cable television series. Each episode satirizes ourculture’s obsessions with social connection, class conflict, theevolving role of celebrity, the reaches of government and how one man’schoices can either help enlighten or destroy our way of life.
The Story Behind This Book
"Stockholm" was originally conceived as a sitcom spec pilot, but eventually became a novel satirizing and celebrating television and media, as well as so many private obsessions and preoccupations.
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