Name: The Smash-Up: A Delicious Satire From a Breakout Voice in Literary Fiction
Price: 539.00 TWD
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Author: Ali Benjamin
ISBN: 9781529409314

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The Smash-Up: A Delicious Satire From a Breakout Voice in Literary Fiction

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ali Benjamin

Publisher

Riverrun

Year

2021

Language

English

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781529409314

The Smash-Up: A Delicious Satire From a Breakout Voice in Literary Fiction

Ali Benjamin (Author) · Riverrun · Hardcover

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Synopsis "The Smash-Up: A Delicious Satire From a Breakout Voice in Literary Fiction "

AN OF-THE-MOMENT NOVEL FOR READERS OF FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE'Timely, risky and dazzling' Polly Clark, author of Tiger'Sharply funny, perceptive, and surprising at every turn, The Smash-Up is a story that's acid-etched and full of heart, intimate, and relevant' Amy Bloom, New York Times bestselling author of White Houses and Away'Every woman should read this book. Every woman, every feminist, every activist' Jane Harris, author of Orange Prize shortlisted The ObservationsAfter years spent in the city, working with his business partner Randy on Bränd media, Ethan finds himself in the quiet, closed-off town of Starkfield. His wife Zenobia is perpetually distracted by the swirling #MeToo politics, the Kavanaugh hearings, and her duties to the feminist activism group she formed: All Them Witches. Ethan finds himself caught between their regular meetings at his home and the battle to get his livewire daughter Alex to sleep.But the new, stilted rhythm of his life is interrupted when he receives a panicked message. Accusations. Against Randy. A slew of them. And Ethan is abruptly forced to question everything: his past, his future, his marriage, and what he values most.Unrelenting in its satire, The Smash-up jolts you into the twisted psyche of successful brand advertising, where historic exploitation is only ever a panicked phone-call away. With magnetic energy and doses of comic wit, Benjamin creates a world of social media algorithms, extreme polarization, the collapsing of identity into tweet-sized spaces, and the spectre of violence that can be found even in the quietest places.

Ali Benjamin

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Ali Benjamin (New York), writer and journalist, has written about astrophysicists and athletes, cosmologists and Arctic conservators, geologists and psychologists, peasants and extraordinary children. She is interested in showing that the world is full of amazing and dazzling things.

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