Edition |
First Scribner Paperback Fiction edition. |
Description |
492 pages ; 21 cm |
Summary |
Sometimes Dreams Come True... and Sometimes Ther're Too Hot to Handle Best freinds since childhood, Darin Harmon and John Williams are young men on the brink of realizing their dreams. For John, it his music; for Darin, football. When Darin suffers an injury that closes the door on his sports aspirations, he reluctantly follows his friend into the music scene and quickly gets swept up in promoting John's new "Loverboy" identity to R&B superstardom. But the celebrity lifestyle of big-time money, fast women, and easy drugs quickly takes it toll, and the friends find themselves at a crossroads that will forever shape each of their futures. |
Subject |
African American musicians -- Fiction.
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Rhythm and blues music -- Fiction.
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African American men -- Fiction.
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Celebrities -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Musical fiction.
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Bildungsromans.
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ISBN |
0684872943 paperback |
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