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Fake accounts : a novel
- Title
- Fake accounts : a novel / Lauren Oyler.
- Author
- Oyler, Lauren
- Publication
- New York : Catapult, [2021]
- ©2021
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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 | JFE 21-6046 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 265 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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. Actually, she's relieved--he was always a little distant--and she plots to end their floundering relationship while on a trip to the Women's March in DC. 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 and increasingly alienated from her friends and colleagues, 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. She begins to think she can't trust anyone--shouldn't the feeling be mutual? 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 --
- Ending her relationship with a man who she discovers is a popular anonymous internet conspiracy theorist, a woman activist travels from Washington, DC, to Berlin, where she struggles with increasingly manipulative dynamics in her online, business, and social circles.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Political fiction.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-6046
- ISBN
- 1948226928
- 9781948226929
- LCCN
- 2020943095
- OCLC
- 1181843897
- Author
- Oyler, Lauren, author.
- Title
- Fake accounts : a novel / Lauren Oyler.
- Publisher
- New York : Catapult, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-6046