What You Could Have Won
€ 15,50
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9781911508861 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Rachel Genn |
| Editora | And Other Stories |
| Formato | Capa mole |
| Número de páginas | 276 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,266 |
| Data de Publicação | 03/11/2020 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 14,62 |
| Imposto | € 0,88 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 15,50 |
| Disponibilidade | 6 unidades em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
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 octopuses 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.