Choking on Marlon Brando is the story of a young female film
critic s love-life is affected and nearly ruined by her obsession with
male movie stars. As her increasingly hapless hunt for the right man
unfolds and her television and newspaper career unravels, our heroine
finally begins to understand that difficult truth: that life is not like
the movies.
Entwined within the narrative of her real-life love
affairs is a kaleidoscope of digressions on great screen actors her
early obsession with Brando, her later dream-life with Gerard Depardieu,
a personal ad seeking out Tom Cruise, a disastrous climactic encounter
with Jeff Bridges. It s a helter-skelter ride through love and the
movies which reads like a screwball comedy. But our heroine is no
screwball; she seems to know everything about movies and the human
heart, and painfully little about anything else. Written in a fresh
and utterly engaging voice, Choking on Marlon Brando is moving and hilarious, a bittersweet and endearing story of a woman who can t draw the line between her live life and the art she loves.
"Her many romantic foibles, while surely painful at the time they were suffered, are exceedingly comic in retrospect. It's about time Pauline Kael met Bridget Jones." --The New York Times Book Review
"A tantalizing playbill of one woman's magnificent obsession with men in celluloid" --O, The Oprah Magazine
"Antonia Quirke writes like an angel with square eyes. Truly comic and not just satirical, her enchanting debut is halfway between a book to read and a game to play."--Clive James
"Like a female Chuck Klosterman writing a London-based Sex and the City, Quirke provides expert and entertaining analyses of her favorite films and monumental relationships, while also wondering whether true love is really the worth the price of admission."--Zinc Magazine
"Quirke is a gifted describer and observer, a genuine and intelligent talent, and a welcome new voice. She's about three seconds from becoming very famous."--Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
and utterly engaging voice, Choking on Marlon Brando is moving and hilarious, a bittersweet and endearing story of a woman who can t draw the line between her live life and the art she loves.
"Her many romantic foibles, while surely painful at the time they were suffered, are exceedingly comic in retrospect. It's about time Pauline Kael met Bridget Jones." --The New York Times Book Review
"A tantalizing playbill of one woman's magnificent obsession with men in celluloid" --O, The Oprah Magazine
"Antonia Quirke writes like an angel with square eyes. Truly comic and not just satirical, her enchanting debut is halfway between a book to read and a game to play."--Clive James
"Like a female Chuck Klosterman writing a London-based Sex and the City, Quirke provides expert and entertaining analyses of her favorite films and monumental relationships, while also wondering whether true love is really the worth the price of admission."--Zinc Magazine
"Quirke is a gifted describer and observer, a genuine and intelligent talent, and a welcome new voice. She's about three seconds from becoming very famous."--Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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