The New Me
a novel
$22.24
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
11 March 2019
Summary
The Circle of “New”: A Temp’s Transformation
In a windowless office, women stand in a circle. One explains something from her real, non-work life - about the frustration and indignity of returning an item she bought online. One wears a topknot. Another checks her pedometer.
Watching them all is Millie. Thirty-years-old and an eternal temp, she says almost nothing, almost all of the time.
But then the possibility of a permanent job arises. Will it bring the new life M…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474612296 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474612296 |
| Author: | Halle Butler |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 11 March 2019 |
| Weight: | 188g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 20mm |
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A definitive work of millennial literature - New Yorker
Brilliant. For fans of Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and RelaxationFunny, shocking, clever, and hugely entertainingVicious … hilariously spot on - GuardianThe best thing I’ve read in years. A dark delight. Viciously funny. Brilliantly subversive. - Emma Jane UnsworthHalle Butler is a first-rate satirist of the horror show being sold to us as Modern Femininity. She is Thomas Bernhard in a bad mood, wearing ill-fitting tights, scrutinizing old take-out leftovers. THE NEW ME shows us the futility of betterment in an increasingly paranoid era of self-improvement, one in which the female body is grated into little bloody empowered bits of itself. A dark comedy of female rage. Fucking hilarious.THE NEW ME renders contemporary American life in such vivid, stinging color, that certain sentences are liable to give the reader a paper cut. But you’ll want to keep on reading anyway. Halle Butler is terrific, and I loved this book.A cringey book about someone’s shitty life that makes you feel infinitely better about your own - Vanity FairAbout 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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