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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. COLOURS 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 pyrotechnic 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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“Incisive, inflamed, inflammatory, offensive, astute, vulgar, mean, wildly funny, compassionate, and sweeping” BOSTON GLOBE
“A brilliant writer with a deliciously warped and blisteringly wiseass take” ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
“Storms the cheesy walls of popular culture like a band of punk-chick Visigoths, and ravages the sequin clad icons within” TIME OUT NEW YORK
“If she keeps being so funny and brutal, she’ll end up famous herself” USA TODAY
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 deep research for this novel. She lives in New York; COLOURS INSULTING TO NATURE is her first novel.
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- PublisherFourth Estate
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0007154585
- ISBN 13 9780007154586
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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