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The Resource Fake accounts : a novel, Lauren Oyler

Fake accounts : a novel, Lauren Oyler

Label
Fake accounts : a novel
Title
Fake accounts
Title remainder
a novel
Statement of responsibility
Lauren Oyler
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
For fans of Elif Batuman's The Idiot and Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Fake Accounts is a provocative examination of social media, sex, feminism, and fiction, the sense of connection they've all promised us, and the lies they make us tell. On the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration, a young woman snoops through her boyfriend's phone and makes a startling discovery : he's an anonymous internet conspiracy theorist, and a popular one at that. Already fluent in internet fakery, irony, and outrage, she's not exactly shocked by the revelation. But this is only the first in a series of bizarre twists that expose a world whose truths are shaped by online lies. Suddenly left with no reason to stay in New York-or be anywhere in particular-our unnamed narrator flees to Berlin, embarking on her own cycles of manipulation in the deceptive spaces of her daily life, from dating apps to expat meetups, open-plan offices to bureaucratic waiting rooms. Narrated with seductive confidence and subversive wit, Fake Accounts challenges the way current conversations about the self and community, delusions and gaslighting, and fiction and reality play out in the internet age
Cataloging source
QPPL
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Oyler, Lauren
Index
no index present
Literary form
fiction
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Women's March on Washington
  • Bloggers
  • Social media
  • Conspiracy theories
  • Washington (D.C.)
  • Berlin (Germany)
Target audience
adult
Label
Fake accounts : a novel, Lauren Oyler
Instantiates
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
000068361755
Dimensions
21 cm.
Extent
265 pages
Isbn
9780008366537
Isbn Type
(pbk.)
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1148633608
Label
Fake accounts : a novel, Lauren Oyler
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
000068361755
Dimensions
21 cm.
Extent
265 pages
Isbn
9780008366537
Isbn Type
(pbk.)
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1148633608

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