Julia Langbein: American Mermaid
American Mermaid
Buch
- A Novel
- Random House LLC US, 03/2023
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780385550017
- Bestellnummer: 11034250
- Umfang: 329 Seiten
- Auflage: International
- Gewicht: 369 g
- Maße: 235 x 156 mm
- Stärke: 21 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 21.3.2023
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR • "Sublime." —New York Times Book Review"Brilliantly sharp, funny, and thought-provoking, the gripping story of a woman trying to find her way in our chaotic world." —Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe
Broke English teacher Penelope Schleeman is as surprised as anyone when her feminist, eco-warrior novel American Mermaid becomes a best-seller. But when Hollywood insists she convert her fierce, androgynous protagonist into to a teen sex object in a clamshell bra, strange things start to happen. Is Penelope losing her mind, or has her fictional mermaid come to life, enacting revenge against society’s limited view of what a woman can and should be?
American Mermaid follows a young woman braving the casual slights and cruel calculations of a winner-take-all society and discovering a beating heart in her own fiction: a new kind of hero who fights to keep her voice and choose her place. A hilarious story about deep things, American Mermaid asks how far we’ll go to protect the parts of ourselves that are not for sale.