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Inhalt: " A Glamour Best Book of 2020 • A Bustle Best Books of 2020 •Winner of an Audiofile Earphones Award• An Entertainment Weekly 30 Hottest Book of the Summer • A Refinery29 25 Book You'll Want To Read This Summer Selection •A Chicago Review of Books 10 Must-Read Books of the Month• A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year •A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year •A Shondaland 15 Hot Books for SummerOne of today's most provocative literary writers the author of the critically-acclaimed Sunshine State and the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist Binary Star captures the confused state of modern romance and the egos that inflate it in a dark comedy about a woman's search for acceptance, identity, and financial security in the rise of Trump. Nina is a struggling writer, a college drop-out, a liar, and a cheater. More than anything she wants love. She deserves it. From the burned-out suburbs of Florida to the anonymous squalor of New York City, she eats through an incestuous cast of characters in search of it: her mother, a narcissistic lesbian living in a nudist polycule,Odessa, a single mom with even worse taste in men than Nina,Seth, an artist whose latest show is comprised of three Tupperware containers full of trash,Brian, whose roller-coaster affair with Nina is the most stable relationship in his life,and Aaron, an aspiring filmmaker living at home with his parents, with whom Nina begins to write her magnum opus. Nina's quest for fulfillment is at once darkly comedic, acerbically acute, and painfully human a scathing critique of contemporary society, and a tender examination of our anguished yearning for connection in an era defined by detachment. "

Inhalt: Biographisches: " Sarah Gerard is the author of the essay collection Sunshine State , which was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, and the novel Binary Star , which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her short stories, essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, T Magazine, Granta, The Baffler , Vice, and the anthologies Tampa Noir , We Can't Help it if We're From Florida , and One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism . She lives in New York City with her true love, the writer Patty Yumi Cottrell. Find her at Sarah-Gerard.com. " Rezension(2): " Glamour :This darkly comic novel... cycles through a memorable cast of characters—" Rezension(3): " Audiofile :Sophie Amoss's superb narration enhances the raw and electric prose of author Sarah Gerard's second novel." Rezension(4): " Entertainment Weekly :[A] darkly comic dissection of desire." Rezension(5): " Elle Nash, BOMB :A scouring tale of how a person moves through toxic relationships while maintaining a sense of agency, subsisting with awareness in a noxious world." Rezension(6): " Booklist :Nina's search for love, fulfillment, and demonstrative success becomes a scathing critique of modern hustle culture and the privilege of making art... in this smart, dark riot of a novel." Rezension(7): " Tracy O’" Rezension(8): " Publishers Weekly :Gossip, sexual desire, and the uncompromising economics for aspiring artists guide the action in Gerard's lurid, captivating tale [with] an arresting feminist layer. Gerard's unflinching look at youthful desperation marks an exciting turn in her work." Rezension(9): " Chicago Review of Books :Gerard knows that a large part of identity is performance. [Her protagonist's] actions, behaviors, language, decisions are at once because of who she is and also serve to define and redefine her evolving self The last scene of the novel is simple and devastating." Rezension(10): " Alexandra Kleeman, author of INTIMATIONS and YOU TOO CAN HAVE A BODY LIKE MINE :Sharp as a knife and wickedly insightful, TRUE LOVE is a ferocious portrait of love, hate, and artistic self-definition in the 21st century. Life, with all its bruises, wounds, and unsightly rashes, becomes real and touchable in Sarah Gerard's masterful hands." Rezension(11): " Ploughshares :Written with an acerbic deadpan [Gerard's] stylistic innovation brilliantly captures the way contemporary technology bifurcates our brains into different conversational tracks The novel thrums with tension, and Gerard captures the dynamic of a failing relationship with lacerating honesty—" Rezension(12): " Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times :Acerbically funny and sharply observant." Rezension(13): " Juliet Escoria, author of JULIET THE MANIAC :TRUE LOVE is a brash, sexy, and addictive novel about bad decisions. Gerard's uncompromising honesty and graceful, precise sentences make me jealous. I didn't want the book to end." Rezension(14): " Nicole Rudick, Paris Review, on Sunshine State :“Gerard's prose is unlabored, flatly observational, and the interwoven mini stories are at once tender and cold, exhilarating and regrettable—" Rezension(15): "〈strong〉Kristin Iversen, Refinery 29〈/strong〉:〈p〉February 1, 2020〈br/〉〈p〉Having debuted with the novel 〈i〉Binary Star〈/i〉, a burst of icy freshness that was a Los Angeles Times Award finalist, and followed with the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award-winning essay collection 〈i〉Sunshine State〈/i〉, Gerard now introduces us to Nina. A troubled writer/dreamer, Nina tries to find love with inappropriate, emotionally unyielding men, but what are you going to do with an artist who exhibits trash in cheerful Tupperware? With a 35,000-copy first printing.〈/p〉 〈p〉Copyright 2020 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.〈/p〉〈/p〉" Rezension(16): "〈strong〉Kristen Arnett, MOSTLY DEAD THINGS〈/strong〉: May 25, 2020 Gossip, sexual desire, and the uncompromising economics for aspiring artists guide the action in Gerard’s lurid, captivating tale (after the essay collection Sunshine State ). Nina Wicks, a 20-something writer with an eating disorder and pill addiction who dropped out of college in New York City, is back home on the Florida Gulf Coast, dating a pretentious artist named Seth while sexting with her magazine editor, Brian, and talking on the phone with her best friend, Odessa, about an attempt to reconnect with her emotionally distant mother. Nina and Seth move to Brooklyn for her to begin a writing program, and she finds a low-paying gig that affords her a space to write. After Nina reconnects with Aaron, an acquaintance from college, they discuss making a movie titled True Love , and their volatile attraction leads to her dizzying breakup with Seth and harrowing fights between Nina and Aaron, which reach a fever pitch after Nina becomes the victim of revenge porn from Brian. Aaron’s movie idea (“a series of ill-conceived relationships that flame out in humiliating ways”) partially describes the book, but Nina’s defiance against labels and mansplaining as she works through her pain on her own terms adds an arresting feminist layer. Gerard’s unflinching look at youthful desperation marks an exciting turn in her work." Rezension(17): "〈strong〉Sarah Neilson, Shondaland〈/strong〉: June 1, 2020 In this smart, dark riot of a novel from the author of the essay collection Sunshine State (2017), Nina moves in and out of relationships with unavailable men at lightning speed. It's a great distraction from the lack of traction in her writing career. Nina also struggles to make time to Skype her lesbian nudist mother and her best friend, a single mother with even worse taste in relationships than Nina. Nina moves from man to man, and writing project to writing project, with her attention flitting faster and faster each time. Her cast of ex-boyfriends is a treat to read for its abject messiness: there's Seth, whose recent gallery show featured literal garbage,Brian, whose life outside his affair with Nina is even more of a disaster than the affair itself,and Aaron, who lives with his parents and entices Nina into serious domestication after they pen their magnum opus together. Nina's search for love, fulfillment, and demonstrative success becomes a scathing critique of modern hustle culture and the privilege of making art.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2020, American Library Association.) 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