Emma Straub lives in New York City. She is the author of a short-story collection, Other People We Married. Her first novel, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, is published by Picador.
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A Curious Invitation, A Fort of Nine Towers, A Picador Christmas, Albert Angelo, Alice Bliss, All That Is, All the Pretty Horses (Picador 40th Edition), American Psycho (Picador 40th Edition), Another Night Before Christmas, Any Human Face, Astray, At Last, Bad News, Banjo, Benediction, Bridget Jones's Diary (Picador 40th Edition), Burial Rites, Burying the Typewriter, Cloudstreet, Cosmopolis, Dare Me, Dirt Music (Picador 40th Edition), Doctor Criminale, Eating People is Wrong, Eventide, Hallucinations, Happy 40th Birthday, Picador, Harvest, Hood Rat, Hope: A Tragedy, How To Be a Good Wife, If This Is Home , Ilustrado, Imperial Bedrooms, Inspector Minahan Makes a Stand, Last Orders (Picador 40th Edition), Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Little Gods, London Unfurled, Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries, Mateship with Birds, Meeting the English, Micka, Mother's Milk, Mother's Milk (Picador 40th Edition), Mr Foote's Other Leg, Mr Fox, Never Mind, Next To Love, Nourishment, One Moment One Morning, Ours Are The Streets, Plainsong, Point Omega, Rates of Exchange, Red Dust Road, Richard, Room, Room (Picador 40th Edition), Rust and Bone (film tie-in), Signs of Life, Solace, Stepping Westward, Sutler, Talk Of The Town, Ten Stories About Smoking, Ten Things I've Learnt About Love, The Book of Life, The Book of My Lives, The City of Abraham, The Daughter Game, The Devil's Garden, The End of Everything, The Family Fang, The Godless Boys, The Great Gatsby, The Great Perhaps, The Heretics, The History Man, The Ice Age, The Line of Beauty (Picador 40th Edition), The Lovely Bones (Picador 40th Edition), The Picador Book of 40, The Psychopath Test, The Road, The Savage Detectives (Picador 40th Edition), The Sea (Picador 40th Edition), The Sea on Fire, The Sealed Letter, The Silver Linings Playbook (film tie-in), The Sly Company of People Who Care, The Stranger's Child, The Tenderloin, The Third Reich, The Transformation Of Bartholomew Fortuno, The Two Week Wait, The View on the Way Down, This is Paradise, Tigers in Red Weather, Titanic Thompson, To the Hermitage, Waiting For Columbus, Wenceslas, When Nights Were Cold, White is for Witching, White Noise (Picador 40th Edition), Why We Build, Wise Men, Wish You Were HereCan't find what you're looking for? Try panmacmillan.com
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Alan Hollinghurst, Aleksandar Hemon, Alice Sebold, Anna Raverat, Anna Richards, B. S. Johnson, Belinda McKeon, Ben Myers, Bret Easton Ellis, Bridget O'Donnell, Carmen Bugan, Carol Ann Duffy, Carrie Tiffany, Charlotte Greig, Cormac McCarthy, Craig Davidson, Don DeLillo, Edward Docx, Edward St Aubyn, Ellen Bryson, Ellen Feldman, Emma Chapman, Emma Donoghue, Emma Straub, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Frances Kay, Gavin Knight, Gerard Woodward, Graham Swift, Hannah Kent, Helen Fielding, Helen Oyeyemi, Howard Cunnell, Ian Kelly, Jackie Kay, Jacob Polley, James Salter, Jim Crace, Joe Meno, John Banville, John Butler, Jon Ronson, Kate Long, Kevin Cook, Kevin Wilson, Kirsten Reed, Laura Harrington, Liza Klaussmann, Malcolm Bradbury, Matteo Pericoli, Matthew Quick, Megan Abbott, Miguel Syjuco, Naomi Wood, Oliver Sacks, Qais Akbar Omar, Rahul Bhattacharya, Rebecca Wait, Richard House, Roberto Bolaño, Rowan Moore, Sarah Butler, Sarah Rayner, Shalom Auslander, Stuart Evers, Stuart Nadler, Sunjeev Sahota, Susanna Jones, Suzette Field, Thomas Trofimuk, Tim Winton, Various, Will Eaves, Will StorrCan't find what you're looking for? Try panmacmillan.com
Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures
Emma Straub
The Artist swept the Oscars, and now Picador publishes captivating debut about the lure of the 1930s Hollywood, in all its dangerous glamour.
When the most famous producer in Hollywood plucks seventeen-year-old Elsa Emerson from a party and gives her a brand-new name, a star of the silver screen is born.
Laura Lamont.
Having spent the summers of her childhood at her father’s roadside theatre, all she has ever wanted is to act. Here, it seems, is her dream come true. Step by step – new figure, new wardrobe, new house, new husband – she succumbs to the consuming power of the studio. But her transformation is more profound than she could ever have foreseen . . .
Taking us from the spotlight and into the shadows, Emma Straub’s sweeping and wildly enjoyable novel has all the glamour and tragedy of the movies. As the lights darken and the credits roll it asks: how many people can we be in a lifetime? And at what cost?
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