You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine - Hardcover

Kleeman, Alexandra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062388673 ISBN 13: 9780062388674

Verlag: HARPERCOLLINS, 2015

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Críticas:

"The smartest, strangest novel I've read in a while."--Paris Review, Staff Pick

"A clever satire of our culture's ever intensifying obsession with health, diet, and body image."--Los Angeles Magazine

"Alexandra Kleeman has written Fight Club for girls."--Vogue.com

"The symbols of modern anomie in this novel are familiar (soulless supermarkets, insane mass entertainments, etc.), but Ms. Kleeman has a singular, off-kilter style, and a distinct vision of the absurd horrors that can come with being trapped in a body."--New York Times

"Her darkly satirical debut lays bare the ravages of advertising-fueled culture and consumerism, through a purposefully distorted version of our reality. Fans of DeLillo, Pynchon and Shteyngart are advised to take note."--Huffington Post

"Alexandra Kleeman's brilliant debut novel You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine is at once eerie and strange and beautiful, an incisive commentary on contemporary culture and womanhood."--Buzzfeed

"Kleeman is, clearly, writing in a postmodernist mode. Her ambition is huge, and, at the level of the sentence, she's amazing."--Kirkus Reviews

"Absurdist observations evoke masters like DeLillo and Pynchon, as well as the "hysterical realism" of Ben Marcus and Tom Perrotta, bringing a refreshingly feminist frame to the postmodern conversation. While ambitious in scope and structure, sharp humor and brisk storytelling ground the existential angst in Kleeman's page-turning, entertaining performance."--Booklist

"My strong preference would be to eat this book and be reconstituted by its intelligence. But with deep gratitude still I will settle for just getting to read this ingenious novel which has eaten up our whole culture...and transubstantiated it into wry, brilliant, undeniable literary truth."--Rivka Galchen

"Alexandra Kleeman is one of the sharpest and smartest young writers I've read - ambitious, promising, brilliant. She can be strange and very funny as well, and when I read her work I have the strong suspicion that I'm reading the literature of the future."--Ben Marcus

Reseña del editor:

An intelligent and madly entertaining debut novel reminiscent of The Crying of Lot 49, White Noise, and City of Glass that is at once a missing-person mystery, an exorcism of modern culture, and a wholly singular vision of contemporary womanhood from a terrifying and often funny voice of a new generation.

A woman known only by the letter A lives in an unnamed American city with her roommate, B, and boyfriend, C, who wants her to join him on a reality show called That’s My Partner! A eats (or doesn’t) the right things, watches endless amounts of television, often just for the commercials—particularly the recurring cartoon escapades of Kandy Kat, the mascot for an entirely chemical dessert—and models herself on a standard of beauty that only exists in such advertising. She fixates on the fifteen minutes of fame a news-celebrity named Michael has earned after buying up his local Wally Supermarket’s entire, and increasingly ample, supply of veal.

Meanwhile B is attempting to make herself a twin of A, who hungers for something to give meaning to her life, something aside from C’s pornography addiction, and becomes indoctrinated by a new religion spread throughout a web of corporate franchises, which moves her closer to the decoys that populate her television world, but no closer to her true nature.

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• Verlag: HARPERCOLLINS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0062388673
• ISBN 13: 9780062388674
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304