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Bojack Horseman meets Joan Didion in this smart, sly, and irresistibly stylish debut novel about a jaded movie star and the two differently conflicted women in his orbit. An aging, A-list movie star lotteries off the entirety of his mega-million blockbuster salary to a member of the general viewing public before taking up with a much younger model. His non-famous best friend (and often lover) looks on impassively, while recollecting their twenty-odd years of unlikely connection. And an aspiring filmmaker, unknown to them both, labors over a script about best friends and lovers while longing for the financial freedom to make great art. Told in their alternating, intricately linked perspectives, Television is a funny, philosophically astute novel about phenomenal luck, whether windfall or chance encounter. Like Joan Didion''s classic Play It as It Lays , but speaking to a since irrevocably changed Hollywood, it portrays a culture in crisis and the disparities in wealth, beauty, talent, gender, and youth at the heart of contemporary American life. In this glittering but strange new world, lit up by social media and streaming services--what, if not love, can be counted in your favor? With plays in chronology, stretches of bright, nimble dialogue, and a profoundly modern style, Lauren Rothery''s debut novel is a slim but arresting feat of literary impressionism, and marks the welcome arrival of a significant new talent to the landscape of American fiction.
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"Television sent me on paths I didn't expect, turning timeless topics such as love, lust, and success into characters, at once elusive and incessant, as they are in life. With quick, surefooted language sometimes giving way to epiphanic fragments that nearly break the fourth wall, we're on high alert that nothing is so easily explained by some idea of reality, especially when actors are involved." - Natasha Stagg, author of Grand Rapids
"Astounding...cool as a cucumber and glittering with startling observations about love, technology, work, media and film. Plus: it's funny." - Molly Young
"Television is a rare thing: a work of formal ingenuity that dismantles the narrative constraints of celebrity, memory, and media. Even as its characters grapple with artifice-in love, in the performances of self-the novel is plangent. It is an actor's monologue and a biographer's aside, a love letter and a critique of attention. In other words, this is a novel as strange, seductive, and inescapable as film itself." - Zain Khalid, author of Brother Alive
"Television is as stylish as it is substantial. A timely and timeless novel for readers of Joan Didion and Gary Indiana. An excellent first book." - Stephanie Wambugu, author of Lonely Crowds
