# Famous - Paperback

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by **Blake Crouch** (Author)

**A man goes to terrifying extremes to adopt his celebrity doppelganger's life in this darkly comedic psychological suspense novel from the _New York Times_ bestselling author of _Dark Matter_ and _Upgrade_.**

The basis for the upcoming A24 film _Famous_, starring Zac Efron.

_"My name is Lancelot Blue Dunkquist, and the best thing about me is, when you doll me up right, I look just like the movie star James Jansen."  
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Meet Lance. Thirty-eight years old. Works a meaningless job. Still lives above his parents' garage. By all accounts, a world-class loser. Save for one glaring exception: He has a million-dollar face.

Lance has been mistaken eighty-seven times for the Oscar-winning movie star James Jansen, and for the last ten years, he's saved his money and studied Jansen's films, his moves, his idiosyncrasies--even the way he speaks. Now, after an unceremonious termination from his job, Lance has decided that the time has come to go after his dream of truly becoming Jansen.

From New York's avant-garde, off-off Broadway scene to the glitter of Los Angeles, Lance embarks on a journey toward becoming James Jansen that will take him closer to the star than even he had dreamed--and to darker lengths than he could've possibly imagined.

Shot through with dark humor and building to a truly shocking conclusion, _Famous_ is a scary, surprising, genre-blending thrill ride as only Blake Crouch can deliver.

### Author Biography

**Blake Crouch** is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. His novels include _Upgrade_, _Recursion_, _Dark Matter_, and the Wayward Pines trilogy. His Pines trilogy was adapted into a television series for FOX, and he also co-created the TNT show _Good Behavior_, based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. He currently acts as head writer and showrunner for the hit Apple TV+ adaptation of _Dark Matter_, starring Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly. He lives in Colorado.

**Number of Pages:** 208

**Dimensions:** 0.6 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN

**Publication Date:** September 23, 2025

## Details

- **Price:** 26.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Dark Humor, Fiction, Humorous, Price Written on Book, Psychological, Suspense, Thrillers

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