{"product_id":"waiting-for-britney-spears-a-true-story-allegedly-1","title":"Waiting for Britney Spears: A True Story, Allegedly","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN \u003ci\u003eLA TIMES BESTSELLER. \u003c\/i\u003eNamed a Most Anticipated Book by \u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVulture, A.V. Club\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOurCulture. \u003c\/i\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Summer Beach Reads. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Like a J.D. Salinger novel rolled in Hunter S. Thompson's hallucinogen dust.\" --Ann Powers, author of \u003ci\u003eTravelling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e[\u003ci\u003eWaiting for Britney Spears\u003c\/i\u003e] transformed and transported me.\" ―Hanif Abdurraqib, author of \u003ci\u003eThere's Always This Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA frenetic, gonzo account of Britney Spears's historic rise and equally tragic fall told by an iconoclastic music journalist. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmerica, 2003: A country at war, its shiny veneer beginning to crack. Von Dutch and \u003ci\u003eThe Simple Life\u003c\/i\u003e dominate. And on the cover of every magazine, a twenty-one-year-old pop star named Britney Spears. Tracking her every move for a third-tier gossip rag in Los Angeles was an unknown young writer taking whatever job he could while pursuing his distant literary dreams. He'd instead become an eyewitness to the slow tragedy of a changing nation, represented in spirit by \"the coy it-girl at the end of history.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYears later, after finally establishing himself as a celebrated journalist, Jeff Weiss presents \u003ci\u003eWaiting for Britney Spears\u003c\/i\u003e, a gonzo, nostalgic, and \"allegedly true\" recounting of his years as a tabloid spy in the lurid underbelly of Los Angeles. Weiss follows America's sweetheart through Vegas superclubs and Malibu car chases, annulled marriages and soul-crushing legal battles, all the way to Britney's infamous 2007 VMA performance. As Weiss lives through the chaos leading to Britney's conservatorship, he observes, with peerless style, cringe-inducing fashion waves, destructive celebrity surveillance, and a country whose decline is embodied by the devastating downturn of its former golden child. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith the narrative flair that established him as a singular chronicler of modern pop culture, Weiss goes for broke in Waiting for Britney Spears, a descent into a neon hall of mirrors reflecting our obsession with fame, morality, and the mystery of what really happened to the last great pop star.","brand":"MCD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51814722928871,"sku":"9780374606138","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_dcf6c800-56f6-44d2-8439-5939b573c927.jpg?v=1771902951","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/waiting-for-britney-spears-a-true-story-allegedly-1","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}