Syrup

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Penguin, 1999 - Fiction - 294 pages
I want to be famous.I want to be so famous that movie stars hang out with me and talk about what a bummer their lives are.I want to beat up photographers who catch me in hotel lobbies with Winona Ryder. I want to be implicated in vicious rumours about Drew Barrymore's sex parties.I want the American Dream.Scat has an idea but is too naive to know what to do with it, so he turns to his flatmate for advice. Sneaky Pete is a marketing genius from Tokyo... or is he? Scat's idea is worth a fortune, and plenty of people are ready to take it off his hands, including 6, a miniskirt-wearing corporate assassin. In a world where sex sells, money talks and image is everything, can a kid with nothing but a bright idea make it big? Scat, 6 and Sneaky Pete are about to find out, in this heart-pounding, hormone-pumping, hilarious romp through the industry that rules our lives.

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