Colors Insulting to Nature - Softcover

Wilson, Cintra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007154577 ISBN 13: 9780007154579

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2005

Synopsis

A hilarious and original debut novel that skewers our craze for celebrity. Liza Normal, like a million teenagers before her, wants desperately to be famous. If she can't be famous, she'll settle for infamy. But no Pop Idol contest on earth will ever crown someone like Liza, with her spookily vulgar 'vocal stylings' and her stripper's wardrobe. Her wits addled by celebrity culture, the ashes of failed stardom in her mouth, she decides to turn her back on her tinsel dreams and embrace her outsider status with a ferocious purity. COLORS INSULTING TO NATURE is a brazenly hilarious oddysey through teen humiliation: the crushes who spurn her, the revenges gone wrong, and the dawning realization that life doesn't come with a soundtrack that tells you when to laugh and cry or an audience to applaud at the end. Cintra Wilson is a pyrotechic wit -- the natural heir to Douglas Coupland and the challenger to Dave Eggers. This novel will have readers howling with laughter and writhing with retrospective embarrassment. She is a staggering talent.

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Review:

"Hilarious.You'll wince at Liza's outlandish humiliations along the way, but it won't stop you from laughing out loud." -- Harper's Bazaar, Hot List

"Wilson cranks out the zingers." -- People

"Hysterical.[Colors Insulting to Nature] takes us on a wacky trip to the heart of our celebrity-obsessed culture." -- Us Weekly, Hot Book Picks

"Riotous and harrowing . an impressive, maybe even great, comic novel." -- The Oregonian (Portland)

"A raucous, hilarious debut novel.[Wilson's] spirited send-up worship of celebrity worship is laugh-out-loud funny."- -- Publishers Weekly

"A send-up of the celebrity obsessed by the woman who wrote the book on fame."--Gotham

"Wilson cranks out the zingers."--People

"Cintra Wilson [is] the thinking woman's David Foster Wallace...with the most action packed sentences in the biz."--New York Times Book Review

"Hilarious...You'll wince at Liza's outlandish humiliations along the way, but it won't stop you from laughing out loud."--Harper's Bazaar, Hot List

"Hysterical...[Colors Insulting to Nature] takes us on a wacky trip to the heart of our celebrity-obsessed culture."--Us Weekly, Hot Book Picks

About the Author:

Cintra Wilson is a playwright, essayist and former columnist. Her essays on the disease of celebrity were collected into a book called A MASSIVE SWELLING and functioned as research for this novel. She lives in New York; COLORS INSULTING TO NATURE is her first novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0007154577
• ISBN 13: 9780007154579
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400