Something New Under the Sun: A Novel

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A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with ambition, corruption, and connectedness in the age of environmental collapse and ecological awakening—a darkly unsettling near-future novel for readers of Don DeLillo and Ottessa MoshfeghONE OF SUMMER&’S BEST BOOKS: The Wall Street Journal • Time • Vulture • Parade • LitHub &“A darkly satirical reflection of ecological reality.&”—Time&“Magnificent and stunning.&”—Jeff VanderMeer, author of Annihilation and Hummingbird Salamander&“Wildly entertaining and beautifully written.&”—LitHubEast Coast novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Hollywood with simple goals in mind: overseeing the production of a film adaptation of one of his books, preventing starlet Cassidy Carter's disruptive behavior from derailing said production, and turning this last-ditch effort at career resuscitation into the sort of success that will dazzle his wife and daughter back home. But California is not as he imagined: Drought, wildfire, and corporate corruption are omnipresent, and the company behind a mysterious new brand of synthetic water seems to be at the root of it all. Patrick partners with Cassidy—after having been her reluctant chauffeur for weeks—and the two of them investigate the sun-scorched city's darker crevices, where they discover that catastrophe resembles order until the last possible second.In this often-witty and all-too-timely story, Alexandra Kleeman grapples with the corruption of our environment in the age of alternative facts. Something New Under the Sun is a meticulous and deeply felt accounting of our very human anxieties, liabilities, dependencies, and, ultimately, responsibility to truth.
Copyright:
2021

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
368 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781984826312
Related ISBNs:
9781984826305
Publisher:
Random House Publishing Group
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Copyrighted By:
Alexandra Kleeman
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Bookshare Staff
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