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The book of formation : a novel
- Title
- The book of formation : a novel / Ross Simonini.
- Author
- Simonini, Ross
- Publication
- Brooklyn : Melville House, [2017]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 18-391 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 239 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "This debut novel--told in interviews--spans 20 years in the rise and fall of the charismatic leader of a seductive self-help movement. In the 1990s, a talk show host leads the "personality movement," an integrative approach to radical self-transformation. Mayah, the movement's architect and celebrity advocate, adopts a curious, wild child named Masha Isle. A guinea-pig for the movement, and the key to its future, Isle is the subject of the eight interviews that comprise this book. As the interviewer's objectivity disintegrates--even as the movement's legitimacy becomes increasingly suspect--he becomes obsessed with Masha. And all of that is thrown into question when tragedy strikes. The stunning debut of a new literary talent, and a fascinating take on the cult of personality: about celebrities need to destroy and recreate themselves to stay relevant, public personalities coming to belong to everyone, and about our need to see everyone as a kind of celebrity"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Satire.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-391
- ISBN
- 9781612196688
- 1612196683
- LCCN
- 2017039346
- OCLC
- 973539118
- Author
- Simonini, Ross, author.
- Title
- The book of formation : a novel / Ross Simonini.
- Publisher
- Brooklyn : Melville House, [2017]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Simonini, Ross, author. Book of formation First edition. Brooklyn : Melville House, 2017 9781612196695
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-391