The New Me - Brossura

Butler, Halle

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ISBN 10: 0143133608 ISBN 13: 9780143133605

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 2019

Riassunto

"[A] definitive work of millennial literature . . . wretchedly riveting." —Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker

“Girls + Office Space + My Year of Rest and Relaxation + anxious sweating = The New Me.” —Entertainment Weekly

I'm still trying to make the dream possible: still might finish my cleaning project, still might sign up for that yoga class, still might, still might. I step into the shower and almost faint, an image of taking the day by the throat and bashing its head against the wall floating in my mind.

Thirty-year-old Millie just can't pull it together. She spends her days working a thankless temp job and her nights alone in her apartment, fixating on all the ways she might change her situation--her job, her attitude, her appearance, her life. Then she watches TV until she falls asleep, and the cycle begins again.

When the possibility of a full-time job offer arises, it seems to bring the better life she's envisioning within reach. But with it also comes the paralyzing realization, lurking just beneath the surface, of how hollow that vision has become. 

"Wretchedly riveting" (The New Yorker) and "masterfully cringe-inducing" (Chicago Tribune), The New Me is the must-read new novel by National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree and Granta Best Young American novelist Halle Butler.

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Recensione:

“The New Me is a bouncy, profane, highly addictive novel about work, female friendship, and other alienations. Halle Butler’s insane talent shimmers on every page of this deadpan misanthrope's ode. A must-read!”
—Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame Citrus and Battleborn

“The New Me renders contemporary American life in such vivid, stinging color, that certain sentences are liable to give the reader a paper cut. But you’ll want to keep on reading anyway. Halle Butler is terrific, and I loved this book.”
—Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble

“A dark comedy of female rage. Halle Butler is a first-rate satirist of the horror show being sold to us as Modern Femininity. She is Thomas Bernhard in a bad mood, showing us the futility of betterment in an increasingly paranoid era of self-improvement. Hilarious.”
—Catherine Lacey, author of Nobody Is Ever Missing and The Answers
 
“A bleak and brutal book that exposes a nearly unbearable futility to life in the workforce, not to mention life outside it. Butler’s vision is funny and raw and dark— a cautionary tale, hilarious and intimate, against growing up and making do.” 
—Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet

“Halle Butler has a way of looking at our 21st-century neoliberalist condition that simultaneously exposes its brutality and renders that same brutality absurd, hilarious, fizzy with humor.  She's an incisive, curmudgeonly bard of the uniquely precarious times we live in, and it is crucial that you read her immediately.”
—Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
 
Praise for Jillian:

“The feel-bad book of the year...Sublimely awkward and hilarious.”
—Chicago Tribune
 
“A claustrophobic, anxiety-inducing book.”
—Lydia Kiesling, The New Yorker
 
“Delightfully subversive. . . Not just the funniest book I've read in a long time, but also one of the most important ones.”
—Leland Cheuk, The Rumpus

L'autore:

Halle Butler is the author of Jillian. She has been named a National Book Award Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree and a Granta Best Young American Novelist.

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• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0143133608
• ISBN 13: 9780143133605
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208