Star Island

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"Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye, a pop star since she was fourteen - and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster. Now meet Cherry's 'undercover stunt double', Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too wasted to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by obsessed paparazzo Bang Abbott. Cherry's handlers want to rescue Ann while keeping her existence a secret.The situation is more complicated than they know. Ann has had a bewitching encounter with Skink - the unhinged former governor of Florida - and he's heading for Miami to find her. Will Skink track down Ann DeLusia before Cherry's motley posse does? Will Cherry sober up in time to lip-synch her way through her concert tour? Stay tuned... "-- p. [4] cover.

subjects: nyt:hardcover_fiction=2010-07-25,  New York Times bestseller,  Women singers,  Paparazzi,  Fiction,  Fame,  Drug and alcohol problems,  Pop star,  Photographers,  Humorous fiction,  New York Times reviewed,  Fiction, humorous, general,  Singers, fiction,  Florida, fiction,  Fiction, humorous,  nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2011-07-10,  Women stunt performers,  Substance use,  Kidnapping,  Large type books,  Mistaken identity

Places: Florida,  Miami