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Banal Nightmare
Halle Butler
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R517
Discovery Miles 5 170
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The "sublimely awkward and hilarious" (Chicago Tribune), National
Book Award "5 Under 35"-garnering first novel from the acclaimed
author of The New Me--now in a new edition 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. Wickedly authentic
and brutally funny, Jillian is a subversive portrait of two women
trapped in cycles of self-delusion and self-destruction, each more
like the other than they would care to admit.
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The New Me (Paperback)
Halle Butler
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R283
R265
Discovery Miles 2 650
Save R18 (6%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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'Terrific. So funny' Zadie Smith 'Monstrously depressing but so
comic and well observed that I didn't really mind .... It is great'
Dolly Alderton 'A dark comedy of female rage' Catherine Lacey
'Brilliant. For fans of Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and
Relaxation' Pandora Sykes 'Funny, shocking, clever, and hugely
entertaining' Roddy Doyle 'A definitive work of milennial
literature' Jia Tolentino 'The best thing I've read in years' Emma
Jane Unsworth 'Vicious ... hilariously spot on' Guardian In a
windowless office, a woman explains something from her real,
nonwork life - about the frustration and indignity of returning her
online shopping - to her colleagues. 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 Millie is envisioning - one involving a gym
membership, a book club, and a lot less beer and TV - finally
within reach? Or will it reveal just how hollow that vision has
become? 'Made me laugh and cry enough times to feel completely
reborn' The Paris Review 'A definite work of millennial literature.
Wretchedly riveting, with the sick, obsessive pleasure of looking
under a bandage at a wound' The New Yorker 'So darkly funny and
acutely observed that it feels like a documentary' Andrew McMillan
'Anyone who has ever felt like their life is going nowhere - and to
make it worse, going nowhere in an achingly slow manner - will
recognize themselves' Nylon
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Banal Nightmare
Halle Butler
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R425
R340
Discovery Miles 3 400
Save R85 (20%)
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Ships in 5 - 10 working days
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The New Me (Paperback)
Halle Butler
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R438
R325
Discovery Miles 3 250
Save R113 (26%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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"[A] definitive work of millennial literature . . . wretchedly
riveting." -Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker "Girls + Office Space +
My Year of Rest and Relaxation + anxious sweating = The New Me."
-Entertainment Weekly I'm still trying to make the dream possible:
still might finish my cleaning project, still might sign up for
that yoga class, still might, still might. I step into the shower
and almost faint, an image of taking the day by the throat and
bashing its head against the wall floating in my mind.
Thirty-year-old Millie just can't pull it together. She spends her
days working a thankless temp job and her nights alone in her
apartment, fixating on all the ways she might change her
situation--her job, her attitude, her appearance, her life. Then
she watches TV until she falls asleep, and the cycle begins again.
When the possibility of a full-time job offer arises, it seems to
bring the better life she's envisioning within reach. But with it
also comes the paralyzing realization, lurking just beneath the
surface, of how hollow that vision has become. "Wretchedly
riveting" (The New Yorker) and "masterfully cringe-inducing"
(Chicago Tribune), The New Me is the must-read new novel by
National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree and Granta Best Young
American novelist Halle Butler. Named a Best Book of the Decade by
Vox, and a Best Book of 2019 by Vanity Fair, Vulture, Chicago
Tribune, Mashable, Bustle, and NPR
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. Wickedly authentic
and brutally funny, Jillian is a subversive portrait of two women
trapped in cycles of self-delusion and self-destruction, each more
like the other than they would care to admit.
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