‘An existential thriller written in prose that points the way to the future’ Zadie Smith‘An existential thriller written in prose that points the way to the future’ Zadie Smith‘Fight Club for girls’ VogueLONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEA lives with B.B seems to be becoming more and more like A.If A’s boyfriend, C, likes A because A is A, but now B is the same as A, where does that leave A?And what has happened to the family across the street, who left one afternoon out of nowhere, covered in sheets with holes cut out for the eyes?‘Comical, malignant and addictive’ Adam Thirlwell‘As good a debut as I’ve ever read’ Zadie Smith‘This book will unsettle you; this book will make you feel intensely alive’ BuzzfeedA lives with B.B seems to be becoming ever more and more like A.If A’s boyfriend, C, likes A because A is A, but now B is the same as A, where does that leave A?And what has happened to the family across the street, who left one afternoon out of nowhere, covered in sheets with holes cut out for the eyes?‘Alexandra Kleeman understands the difficulty of having a flesh and blood body in a world of images and signs, she knows how it feels to be a hungry girl when appetite is a scandal, and how every relation with another person can feel like a stain on yourself. She has constructed a perfect fable for our present situation, 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‘The next voice of a generation’ Elle‘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‘Destined to be one of the most talked about books this year’ Reader’s Digest‘One of the most original debuts I've read in years – complex, brave, vibrant, and brought to life with huge skill and intelligence’ BookBag‘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‘Magnificently weird and wise. Alexandra Kleeman breaks down and breaks apart all the ways in which we know ourselves, and our bodies, and our lovers, and our lovers’ bodies. I didn’t want to miss a word, or an inch’ Lauren Elkin, author of Flâneuse‘Excellent. The female body: What to do with it? You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine is a story about realizing you’re hungry and trying to find out what for’ SlateAlexandra Kleeman is a NYC-based writer of fiction and nonfiction, and a PhD candidate in Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, Conjunctions, Guernica, and Gulf Coast, among others. Nonfiction essays and reportage have appeared in Harpers, Tin House, n+1, and The Guardian.• A very unusual debut novel that was ecstatically reviewed and praised on US publication• Has drawn comparisons with Don DeLillo’s White Noise and Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49• A satire about the beauty industry, consumerist culture, body image and dieting, this is highly topical• ‘A powerful allegory of our civilization’s many maladies, artfully and elegantly articulated, by one of the young wise women of our generation’ Valeria Luiselli, New York TimesCompetition: My Brilliant Friend; Knife Of Never Letting Go; Gap Of Time; Days Of Abandonment; Manual For Cleaning Women; All That Man Is; Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing; My Brilliant Friend. Patrick Ness;Jeanette Winterson; Nell Zink; Rachel Cusk; Nikesh Shukla; Colson Whitehead; Elena Ferrante; Margaret Atwood; Han Kang; Lucia Berlin; Ben Lerner; Deborah Levy; Maggie Nelson; David Szalay; Eimear McBride; Ottessa Moshfegh; Zadie Smith; Lauren Groff; Ben Marcus;
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