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- ISBN
- 9781474617574
- Titel
- Jillian
- Författare
- Butler, Halle
- Förlag
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Utgivningsår
- 2020
- Omfång
- 199 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Häftad
- Mått
- 0 x 200 mm
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- "Twenty-four-year-old Megan may have her whole life ahead of her, but it already feels like a dead end, thanks to her dreadful job as a gastroenterologist's receptionist and her heart-clogging resentment of the success and happiness of everyone around her. But no one stokes Megan's bitterness quite like her coworker, Jillian, a grotesquely optimistic, thirty-five-year-old single mother whose chirpy positivity obscures her mounting struggles. Megan and Jillian's lives become increasingly precarious as their faulty coping mechanisms - denial, self-help books, alcohol, religion, prescription painkillers, obsessive criticism, alienated boyfriends, and, in Jillian's case, the misguided purchase of a dog - send them spiraling toward their downfalls."--From publisher.
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Inrikes enhetsfrakt Sverige: 62 SEK
- ISBN
- 9780593730362
- Titel
- Banal Nightmare - A Novel
- Författare
- Halle Butler
- Förlag
- Penguin Random House USA
- Utgivningsår
- 2025
- Omfång
- 336 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Häftad
- Mått
- 0 x 210 mm Ryggbredd 18 mm
- Vikt
- 232 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- A “vividly, chillingly current” (The Washington Post) novel by the author of The New Me, one of the boldest voices in American fiction
“So searingly precise in [its] ability to capture a certain moment or experience that you have to stop every few pages to send another perfect quote to your group chat.”—The New York Times
“So funny, so smart, utterly vicious—just brilliant.”—Zadie Smith
“Butler has crafted a novel in which every character proves to be completely, uniquely crazy. Her perverse sense of humor should be studied and celebrated.”—David Sedaris
A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Margaret Anne “Moddie” Yance had just returned to her native land in the Midwestern town of X, to mingle with the friends of her youth, to get back in touch with her roots, and to recover from a stressful decade of living in the city in a small apartment with a man she now believed to be a megalomaniac or perhaps a covert narcissist.
So begins Halle Butler’s sadistically precise and hilarious Banal Nightmare, which follows Moddie as she abruptly ends her long-term relationship and moves back to her hometown, throwing herself at the mercy of her old friends as they, all suddenly tipping toward middle age, go to parties, size each other up, obsess over past slights, dream of wild triumphs, and indulge in elaborate revenge fantasies. When her friend Pam invites a mysterious East Coast artist to take up a winter residency at the local university, Moddie has no choice but to confront the demons of her past and grapple with the reality of what her life has become. As the day of reckoning approaches, friends will become enemies, enemies will become mortal enemies, and old loyalties will be tested to their extreme.
Banal Nightmare is filled with complicated characters who will dazzle you in their rendering just as often as they will infuriate you with their decisions. Halle Butler singularly captures the volatile, angry, aggrieved, surreal, and entirely disorienting atmosphere of the modern era.
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Granta issue 139
Häftad bok. Granta Publications London. 2017. 314 sidor.
ISBN 9781909889064
Nyskick. Oläst. The Magazine of New Writing. Best of young American novelists 2017: twenty-one outstanding writers who capture the preoccupation of modern America. … läs mer
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Granta Publications London 9781909889064
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