'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
Alexandra Kleeman's fiction has been published in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, Conjunctions, Guernica and Gulf Coast, among others. Nonfiction essays and reportage have appeared in Harpers, Tin House, n+1, and the Guardian. She is the author of a story collection called Intimations, and You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine is her first novel. She lives in New York City.
Title: You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
Author: Kleeman, Alexandra
ISBN: 9780008210878
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date: 2017-08-10
Number of Pages: 304
Weight: 0.2813 kg
'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
