Summary
Jillian: A Subversive Portrait of Self-Delusion
Twenty-four-year-old Megan feels trapped. Her job as a gastroenterologist’s receptionist is dreadful, and she resents the success and happiness of everyone around her. No one stokes her bitterness quite like Jillian, her grotesquely optimistic, thirty-five-year-old coworker and single mother, whose chirpy positivity obscures her mounting struggles.
Megan and Jillian’s lives become increasingly precarious as their faulty coping …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474617574 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474617573 |
| Author: | Halle Butler |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 13 July 2020 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 28mm |
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Outrageous and amusing … reads like rubbernecking or a junk-food binge, compelling a horrified fascination and bleak laughter
Outrageous and amusing … reads like rubbernecking or a junk-food binge, compelling a horrified fascination and bleak laughter - Kirkus
Wretchedly riveting - New YorkerButler is an essential contemporary voice - Literary HubA master of writing about work and its discontents - The MillionsThe funniest book I’ve read in a long time, but also one of the most important ones - The RumpusThe feel-bad book of the year … sublimely awkward and hilarious - Chicago TribuneFew authors capture the acidic angst of downtrodden millennials like Butler - The Huffington PostNever before have a pair of characters made me so sick with hatred and empathy at once. Butler is writing exactly what I want to read.About The Author
Halle Butler
Halle Butler is a writer living in New York City. Her first novel, Jillian, was called the “feel-bad book of the year” by the Chicago Tribune. Her second novel, The New Me, was named a Best Book of the Decade by Vox and a Best Book of the Year by Vanity Fair, Vulture, Chicago Tribune, Mashable, Bustle, and NPR, and the New Yorker called it a “definitive work of millennial literature.” She was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree.
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