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Alexandra Kleeman - You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

Av Alexandra Kleeman

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‘The next voice of a generation’ Elle LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE A young woman called A lives with a young woman called B. B is becoming more and more like A: wearing her clothes, using her make-up. If A’s boyfriend, C, likes A because A is A, but now B is the same is A, where does that leave A?‘Brilliant. A contemporary take on Single White Female as scripted by Miranda July, shot through with elements of a distinctly Atwoodian dystopia’ Observer‘A disturbing, super-smart mystery’ Daily Mail ‘As good a debut as I've ever read’ Zadie Smith
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2017-08-10
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 23 mm
  • Vikt: 290 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 304
  • Förlag: HarperCollins Publishers
  • ISBN: 9780008210878
  • Miljömärkning: Produced using independently certified paper to ensure responsible forestry management. (Certification is by FSC, PEFC or SFI.) Produced in the UK using 100% renewable electricity.
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Alexandra Kleeman’s fiction has been published in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, Conjunctions, Guernica and Gulf Coast, among others. Nonfiction essays and reportage have appeared in Harpers, Tin House, n+1, and the Guardian. She is the author of a story collection called Intimations, and You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine is her first novel. She lives in New York City.

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‘An existential thriller written in prose that points the way to the future. You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine is as good a debut as I've ever read’ Zadie Smith‘A disturbing, super-smart mystery’ Daily Mail‘Strange, entertaining … a clever satire on the naval-gazing horrors of contemporary life’ Financial Times‘Weird and wonderful’ Metro‘Kleeman tackles zeitgeist female themes of wellness, orthorexia and individualism with a sharp and original voice. Most potent is her uncanny fascination with the body, which leaves you feeling totally off-kilter with your own’ Sunday Times‘Absurd and brilliant … exalts in inventive, visceral language’ Daily Telegraph‘Alexandra Kleeman’s debut tackles gender dynamics; advertising; our relationship with food, and ponders what it means to be a woman living in a world obsessed with how the female body looks’ Psychologies‘Destined to be one of the most talked about books this year’ Reader’s Digest‘Everyone knows we inhabit a woozy landscape of flatness, repetition and irregular bodies, and here at last is its hyper-contemporary description. Alexandra Kleeman possesses a new tone – comical, malignant and addictive’ Adam Thirlwell‘Thomas Pynchon. David Foster Wallace. Don de Lillo. Haruki Murakami … No one seems to have considered what a feminine equivalent might be. You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine provides the answer’ Emerald Street‘The next voice of a generation’ Elle

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