True Love - A Novel

One of today's most provocative literary writers--the author of the critically acclaimed Sunshine State and the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist Binary Star --captures the confused state of modern romance and the egos that inflate it in a dark comedy about a woman's search for acceptance, identity, and financial security in the rise of Trump. Nina is a struggling writer, a college drop-out, a liar, and a cheater. More than anything she wants love. She deserves it. From the burned-out suburbs of Florida to the anonymous squalor of New York City, she eats through an incestuous cast of characters in search of it: her mother, a narcissistic lesbian living in a nudist polycule; Odessa, a single mom with even worse taste in men than Nina; Seth, an artist whose latest show is comprised of three Tupperware containers full of trash; Brian, whose roller-coaster affair with Nina is the most stable "relationship" in his life; and Aaron, an aspiring filmmaker living at home with his parents, with whom Nina begins to write her magnum opus . Nina's quest for fulfillment is at once darkly comedic, acerbically acute, and painfully human--a scathing critique of contemporary society, and a tender examination of our anguished yearning for connection in an era defined by detachment.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sarah Gerard
• Verlag: Harper Collins Usa
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780062937438
• ISBN: 978-0-06-293743-8
• Seiten: 224
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 21 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Romance, Narrative theme: Interior life, Relating to early adulthood, United States of America, USA, Anthologies: general, Plays, Playscripts, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Romance / Romantic Comedy, DRAMA: American / General, DRAMA: Women Authors, FICTION: Coming of Age, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Psychological, FICTION: Romance / New Adult, FICTION: City Life, LITERATURE: FAMILY, Modern and Contemporary romance, Literature / General Fiction, Literature / Family