What You Could Have Won (eBook)

Rachel Genn (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
276 Seiten
And Other Stories (Verlag)
978-1-911508-87-8 (ISBN)

Infos

'Fame is the only thing worth having. Love is temporary brain damage. Or so thinks Henry Sinclair, a failing psychiatrist, whose career-breaking discovery has been pinched by a supervisor smelling of nipple grease and hot-dog brine. An emotional miser and manipulator par excellence, desperate for the recognition he's certain his genius deserves, Henry claws his way into the limelight by transforming his girlfriend—a singer-in-ascendance, beloved for her cathartically raw performances—into a drug experiment. As he systematically works to reinforce feelings of worthlessness while at the same time feeding off Astrid's fame, and as Astrid collapses deeper into dependence, what emerges is a two-sided toxic relationship: the bullying instincts of a man shrunk by an industry where bullying is currency, and the peculiar strength of a star more comfortable offloading her talent than owning her brilliance. Pinging between their apartment in New York (where they watch endless episodes of The Sopranos), a nudist campsite in Greece (where the tantalizingly handsome Gigi thwacks octopi into the sand), and a celebrity rehab facility in Paris (founded by the cassock-wearing and sex-scandal plagued 'artist' Hypno Ray), What You Could Have Won is a relationship born of regrettable events, and a novel about female resilience in the face of social control.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.11.2020
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Amy Winehouse • Anne Boyer • Anne Enright • Celebrity • Claire-Louise Bennett • Comedy • Contemporary fiction • Drugs • Europe • Fame • Female Resilience • feminist • Gender • Genius • Greece • Helen Mort • Jennifer Egan • kevin barry • literary fiction • London • Love Story • Masculinity • New York • Paris • Performance • Psychiatrist • Realism • Rehabilitation • Relationship • scandal • Self-discovery
• ISBN-10: 1-911508-87-3 / 1911508873
• ISBN-13: 978-1-911508-87-8 / 9781911508878