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You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Kleeman, Alexandra
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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 0062388673
- Book Title
- You Too Can Have a Body like Mine : a Novel
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, Contemporary Women, Literary
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 17.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062388673
ISBN-13
9780062388674
eBay Product ID (ePID)
205664408
Product Key Features
Book Title
You Too Can Have a Body like Mine : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Contemporary Women, Literary
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3611.L44245y69
Reviews
Kleeman's debut novel is a fever dream of modern alienation. . . . not really like any other, but could be described as a blend of the nightmarish disassociation of DeLillo's White Noise and the phantasmagoria of Bergman's Persona . A challenging novel, but undoubtedly one with something to say., 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., A brilliant and strange portrait of dystopian consumption--of food, television, and one another--YTCHABLM would be purely unsettling if it weren't also so gorgeously written and funny. Thankfully, we too can have a mind like Alexandra Kleeman's, or the simulacrum of it, through this stupendous debut., 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., A fever dream of modern alienation. . . . not really like any other, but could be described as a blend of the nightmarish disassociation of DeLillo's White Noise and the phantasmagoria of Bergman's Persona. A challenging novel, but undoubtedly one with something to say., We live in a reality so sick and absurd already that satire has a hard time one-upping it, but Kleeman has done so in a way that is at once moving, haunting, hilarious, and surpassingly strange. It's a novel about starvation that I read with voracious hunger., Kleeman is, clearly, writing in a postmodernist mode. Her ambition is huge, and, at the level of the sentence, she's amazing., 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., Alexandra Kleeman's debut novel is brilliant, incisive, and exactly how to send off summer with a bang. Written masterfully, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine is a biting cultural indictment on what we see, think, do, and eat - especially while being a woman., At once eerie and strange and beautiful, an incisive commentary on contemporary culture and womanhood., Excellent . . . Sprinkled with detailed summaries of invented advertisements, the book describes a consumer landscape just on the far side of plausible. You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine is a story about realizing you're hungry and trying to find out what for., 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., At once eerie and strange and beautiful, Alexandra Kleeman's brilliant debut novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine immediately distinguishes itself with its originality and unique voice., Eerie and resonant, Alexandra Kleeman's riveting novel grapples with the essential creepiness of living in human skin. Like watching a body horror film, the experience of reading this book disassembles the familiar and makes everything new and strange. You might never eat another orange., Alexandra Kleeman's debut novel is brilliant, incisive, and exactly how to send off summer with a bang. Written masterfully, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine is a biting cultural indictment on what we see, think, do, and eat -- especially while being a woman., "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.", This debut novel by future superstar Alexandra Kleeman will be the thing to be seen reading this summer. Pick it up if you want to up your summer cool factor . . . . .Very funny, perfectly weird, a hyperintelligent commentary on a culture obsessed with you and fame., As incisive about our dark cultural obsessions as she is compassionate towards the individuals who fall prey to them, Alexandra Kleeman is a terrifying and elegant talent you will not soon forget., Writing in the same tradition as writers like DeLillo and Pynchon, writers who can take the world and shift it so that it to reveal all of its innate strangeness, Kleeman has crafted a darkly funny and deep cutting novel., Don't be fooled by the sassy title-the cravings that lurk beneath the surface in this completely original debut will haunt what a body means to you indefinitely., Well this is very strange, creepy and wonderful.…the lyrical idyll language and the brief mistake of thinking we may have stumbled into an Amy Hempel story, and then, somehow a Natsuo Kirino story, but then, naturally, no, it's pure Kleeman. Some other place altogether!, Captivating and full of gorgeous perversity, the insights and wit of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine dissolved almost everything I thought I knew about being a body., A powerful allegory of our civilization's many maladies, artfully and elegantly articulated, by one of the young wise women of our generation., Kleeman serves up a clever satire of our culture's ever intensifying obsession with health, diet, and body image.
Copyright Date
2015
Lccn
2014-042024
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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