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A story about how Money + Celebrity = Sex.
And always will.
it's the summer of 1990. New jack swing has taken hold. Dark, an ambitious music manager who knows his way around the scene, seeks out an unknown singer to become the next R&B star. He finds moldable clay in Brian Barnes, a kid from the projects who briefly tasted fame as a teenaged member of a Jackson Five imitation quintet. After some grooming in and out of the studio, Dark makes a deal with Sony and Brian's first single shoots to the top of the charts.
Not wanting to lose momentum, Brian and Dark set off together on a promotional tour across the country, hitting the Penn Relays, Freaknik in Atlanta, and juke joints in North Carolina until they finally arrive in L.A. for the Soul Train Awards. Along the way, the two men engage in their own sexual Olympics, indulging in a parade of groupies, horny co-eds, and self-interested starlets. Brian -- the newly baptized Busy B of R&B -- has fallen victim to the Fever, that unique combination of ego, sex addiction, and fame that has claimed many other soul singers.
As Brian's behavior becomes more and more bizarre, Dark stays busy shielding his star from the scorn of the girlfriend left behind and a mother yearning for her own piece of the spotlight. Trouble mounts when Brian begins to mistrust his management -- Dark -- after the fever of fame has clouded his mind and body. Inspired by true stories about the rich and famous, this novel's insider tales of drugs, lies, prostitutes, and pay-offs is the most revealing look at life on the road yet written.
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Jasper Mccrea
reviewed The Fever on June 11, 2009
The Fever
This is an inventive and well-written homage to that pillar of Western literature, "Don Quixote." Julian Branston's premise is that the famous knight errant actually exists. He has great fun with the political implications of poetry in seventeenth-century Spain, and the story takes on shades of "Amadeus" when he makes a Cervantian rival the villain of the plot.
I looked in vain for the "foul-mouthed Iberian babes" singled out by a reviewer from Britain's Guardian newspaper. While a pair of beautiful Spanish women do have prominent roles in the story (as the widowed patroness of a literary salon and the wife of Cervantes' friend and printer Robles, respectively), neither of them seems particularly foul-mouthed.
Don Quixote come to life has all of the serenity and comic detachment you'd expect (think Peter Sellers in the movie "Being There"), but my favorite character is Branston's update of Sancho Panza in the person of a merchant named Pedro.
Pedro is loyal as a dog, always looking to make a peso, and prone to generalities about the import/export business if you insist on asking what he does for a living.
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