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Reena Spaulings
Paperback
Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
Science FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $17.95
ISBN13: 9781584350309
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Published: Jul 8 2005
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Set in post-9/11 New York City, Reena Spaulings was written by a large collective of writers and artists that bills itself as The Bernadette Corporation. Like most contemporary fiction, Reena Spaulings is about a female twenty-something. Reena is discovered while working as a museum guard and becomes a rich international supermodel. Meanwhile, a bout of terrible weather seizes New York, leaving in its wake a strange form of civil disobedience that stirs its citizens to mount a musical song-and-dance riot called Battle on Broadway. Fashioned in the old Hollywood manner by a legion of professional and amateur writers striving to achieve the ultimate blockbuster, the musical ends up being about a nobody who could be anybody becoming a somebody for everybody. The result is generic and perfect--not unlike Reena Spaulings itself, whose many authors create a story in which New York itself strives to become the ultimate collective experiment in which the only thing shared is the lack of uniqueness.
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