You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

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?

Relazione

'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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Alexandra Kleeman, Kleeman Alexandra
• Editore: Fourth Estate
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 10.08.2017
• EAN: 9780008210878
• ISBN: 978-0-00-821087-8
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Dystopian, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Eating Disorders, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Dystopian & utopian fiction, Satirical fiction & parodies, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, romance;love;romantic;stories