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You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

By (author) Alexandra Kleeman
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Fourth Estate Ltd
Published: 10th Aug 2017
Dimensions: w 129mm h 198mm d 23mm
Weight: 290g
ISBN-10: 000821087X
ISBN-13: 9780008210878
Barcode No: 9780008210878
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Synopsis
'The next voice of a generation' Elle LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 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? 'Brilliant. A contemporary take on Single White Female as scripted by Miranda July, shot through with elements of a distinctly Atwoodian dystopia' Observer 'A disturbing, super-smart mystery' Daily Mail 'As good a debut as I've ever read' Zadie Smith

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'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