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ISBN10: 014310795X
ISBN13: 9780143107958
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Mar 15 2016
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780143107958
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Mar 15 2016
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
- Named one of the Huffington Post's 2015 Books We Can't Wait To Read -
Smart and absorbing. . . . Echoes of Steven Millhauser and Tom McCarthy. . . . Probing, witty. --The New York Times Book Review
All his life, Giovanni Bernini has possessed an uncanny gift: he can imitate anyone he meets. Honed by his mother at a young age, the talent catapults him from small-town obscurity to stardom.
As Giovanni describes it, No one's disguise is perfect. There is in every person, no matter how graceful, a seam, a thread curling out of them. . . . When pulled by the right hands, it will unravel the person entire. As his fame grows, Giovanni encounters a beautiful and enigmatic stage singer, Lucy Starlight--the only person whose thread he cannot find--and becomes increasingly trapped inside his many poses. Ultimately, he must assume the one identity he has never been able to master: his own. In the vein of Jonathan Lethem's and Kevin Wilson's playful surrealism, Jacob Rubin's The Poser is the debut of a major literary voice, a masterfully written, deeply original comic novel, and the moving story of a man who must risk everything for the chance to save his life and know true love.Also in
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