The Assistants
The Player meets Office Space in this catty, clever farce that pits Hollywood power players against their plucky underlings.
3 out of 4 stars
People Magazine
Praise
“Laugh-out loud funny, depressing in a good way, and so up-to-the-minute it could have been written last week, The Assistants is a rare thing: a convincing and very entertaining Hollywood novel.”
— Bret Easton Ellis
“How can you not love a book where one of the characters has pec implants? The Assistants is so viciously funny that I read it in one night—and spent the next six being thankful I’ve never worked in Hollywood. It’s the perfect summer read.”
— Lauren Weisberger, New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada
“…a highly energetic, charming account of the frustration and abuse experienced by the unseen of Hollywood…Highly recommended.”
— Library Journal
“Self-obsessed actors. Parasitic agents. Prying paparazzi. Abused underlings. Lobotomized hot chicks. Affleck and Damon are ‘old farts!’ The hilarious Hollywood so astutely observed in The Assistants is exactly the town we all know and love—and love to hate.”
— Ken Baker, US Weekly, West Coast Executive Editor
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Robin Lynn Williams
Robin managed to survive twelve months as a personal assistant to several Hollywood luminaries. She is an English/Creative Writing graduate from UCLA and has been profiled in the semiannual First Fiction feature in Publisher’s Weekly, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, People, US, The Star, and LA Weekly. In her free time, Robin enjoys flying by the seat of her pants, talking to strangers, and watching cheesy Lifetime movies, especially the ones starring Rob Lowe with a silly mustache. Like Carrie and Charlotte, she lives in Manhattan.