St. Famous
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: December 1, 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780385474597
First sentence: SOMEONE-A DISAFFECTED NURSE, PERHAPS, OR AN Orderly, tired of being snapped at and looking to supplement his meager income-must have tipped off one of the journalist that Paul Soloway was leaving the hospital that day; and since media people never manifested singly, a pack of them had been waiting just outside the doors of the Lenox Hill lobby, and now there was a different pack standing in the slush and dim sunshine as the cab pulled up to Paul and Renata's apartment building.
Description: Paul Soloway is an aspiring novelist who works in obscurity and dreams of fame - until fame is inadvertently thrust upon him in the form of a riot, a video camera, and a young black man named Victor Hartley.

Caught in the violent confusion of a community uprising in Manhattan, Paul subsequently finds himself a random victim and reluctant hero, the object of desire at the center of a media circus, and the unwitting subject of intense negotiation among lawyers and movie executives whose own creative abilities threaten to put Paul's to shame. The tumultuous weeks that follow culminate in a devastating confrontation between black and white, literature and commerce, infamy and renown.