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A stylish, darkly satirical and madly entertaining debut novel written by one of the most exciting new names in fiction.
A strange new advert for an irresistible chocolate snack is all over the TV, and up and down the country people have started to disappear - some of them wearing ghost costumes. Hungry for definition and meaning, and just plain hungry, a young woman leaves her life behind to go in search for the truth. A missing person mystery told from the point of view of the missing person, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine is wholly original and completely heart-breaking - and full of clear-eyed observations on food, beauty, relationships, and above all, the human body.
A strange new advert for an irresistible chocolate snack is all over the TV, and up and down the country people have started to disappear - some of them wearing ghost costumes. Hungry for definition and meaning, and just plain hungry, a young woman leaves her life behind to go in search for the truth. A missing person mystery told from the point of view of the missing person, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine is wholly original and completely heart-breaking - and full of clear-eyed observations on food, beauty, relationships, and above all, the human body.
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'Alexandra Kleeman is one of the sharpest and smartest young writers I've read - ambitious, promising, brilliant... When I read her work I have the strong suspicion that I'm reading the literature of the future.' Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet
'Alexandra Kleeman has written Fight Club for girls.' Vogue
'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 Times Book Review
'This debut novel by future superstar Alexandra Kleeman will be the thing to be seen reading this summer... Funny, perfectly weird, a hyperintelligent commentary on a culture obsessed with you and fame.' Vanity Fair
'This frequently impressive debut has some of George Saunders' loony satire and some of Don DeLillo's bone-deep paranoia... Kleeman has a singular, off-kilter style, and a distinct vision of the absurd horrors that can come with being trapped in a body.' The New York Times
'The smartest, strangest novel I've read in a while.' - Paris Review, Staff Pick
'Alexandra Kleeman's brilliant debut novel You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine is at once eerie and strange and beautiful, an incisive commentary on contemporary culture and womanhood.' Buzzfeed.com'Don't be fooled by the sassy title - the cravings that lurk beneath the surface in this completely original debut will haunt what a body means to you indefinitely.' Marie Claire (US)
'Her darkly satirical debut lays bare the ravages of advertising-fueled culture and consumerism, through a purposefully distorted version of our reality. Fans of DeLillo, Pynchon and Shteyngart are advised to take note.' Huffington Post (US)
'A fever dream of modern alienation... A blend of the nightmarish disassociation of DeLillo's White Noise and the phantasmagoria of Bergman's Persona. A challenging novel, but undoubtedly one with something to say.' Publishers Weekly (starred review)
'Wry, brilliant, undeniable literary truth.' - Rivka Galchen, author of American Innovations
'Captivating and full of gorgeous perversity' - Catherine Lacey, author of Nobody is Ever Missing
'Riveting... makes everything new and strange.' - Emily Gould, author of Friendship
'As incisive about our dark cultural obsessions as she is compassionate towards the individuals who fall prey to them, Alexandra Kleeman is a terrifying and elegant talent you will not soon forget.' --Kathleen Alcott author of Infinite Home
'Really sharp, very blackly exploration of identity and what happens when you lose your own... It's a super-impressive, very assured debut and I'm really excited to read what she does next.' --Anna James, A Case for Books
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'Alexandra Kleeman has written Fight Club for girls.' Vogue
'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 Times Book Review
'This debut novel by future superstar Alexandra Kleeman will be the thing to be seen reading this summer... Funny, perfectly weird, a hyperintelligent commentary on a culture obsessed with you and fame.' Vanity Fair
'This frequently impressive debut has some of George Saunders' loony satire and some of Don DeLillo's bone-deep paranoia... Kleeman has a singular, off-kilter style, and a distinct vision of the absurd horrors that can come with being trapped in a body.' The New York Times
'The smartest, strangest novel I've read in a while.' - Paris Review, Staff Pick
'Alexandra Kleeman's brilliant debut novel You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine is at once eerie and strange and beautiful, an incisive commentary on contemporary culture and womanhood.' Buzzfeed.com'Don't be fooled by the sassy title - the cravings that lurk beneath the surface in this completely original debut will haunt what a body means to you indefinitely.' Marie Claire (US)
'Her darkly satirical debut lays bare the ravages of advertising-fueled culture and consumerism, through a purposefully distorted version of our reality. Fans of DeLillo, Pynchon and Shteyngart are advised to take note.' Huffington Post (US)
'A fever dream of modern alienation... A blend of the nightmarish disassociation of DeLillo's White Noise and the phantasmagoria of Bergman's Persona. A challenging novel, but undoubtedly one with something to say.' Publishers Weekly (starred review)
'Wry, brilliant, undeniable literary truth.' - Rivka Galchen, author of American Innovations
'Captivating and full of gorgeous perversity' - Catherine Lacey, author of Nobody is Ever Missing
'Riveting... makes everything new and strange.' - Emily Gould, author of Friendship
'As incisive about our dark cultural obsessions as she is compassionate towards the individuals who fall prey to them, Alexandra Kleeman is a terrifying and elegant talent you will not soon forget.' --Kathleen Alcott author of Infinite Home
'Really sharp, very blackly exploration of identity and what happens when you lose your own... It's a super-impressive, very assured debut and I'm really excited to read what she does next.' --Anna James, A Case for Books
A woman known only as A lives in an unnamed American city with her roommate, B, and boyfriend, C, who wants her to join him on a reality dating show called That's My Partner! A eats mostly popsicles and oranges, watches endless amounts of television, often just for the commercials-- particularly the recurring cartoon escapades of Kandy Kat, the mascot for an entirely chemical dessert--and models herself on a standard of beauty that exists only in such advertising. She fixates on the fifteen minutes of fame a local celebrity named Michael has earned after buying up a Wally's Supermarket's entire, and increasingly ample, supply of veal.
Meanwhile, B is attempting to make herself a twin of A, who in turn hungers for something to give meaning to her life, something aside from C's pornography addiction. Maybe something like what's gotten into her neighbors across the street, the family who's begun "ghosting" themselves beneath white sheets and whose garage door features a strange scrawl of graffiti: he who sits next to me, may we eat as one.
An intelligent and madly entertaining novel reminiscent of The Crying of Lot 49, White Noise, and City of Glass, Alexandra Kleeman's unforgettable debut is a missing-person mystery told from the point of view of the missing person; an American horror story that concerns sex and friendship, consumption and appetite, faith and transformation, real food and reality television; and, above all, a wholly singular vision of modern womanhood by a frightening, "stunning" (Conjunctions), and often very funny voice of a new generation.
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- PublisherMelville House UK
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 0992876591
- ISBN 13 9780992876593
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages284
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