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The Appetite Factory
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ISBN10: 1684428696
ISBN13: 9781684428694
Publisher: Keylight Books
Published: Aug 23 2022
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781684428694
Publisher: Keylight Books
Published: Aug 23 2022
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
An all-too-familiar dystopia where public perception precedes reality and our identities are defined by what we consume.As head of the crisis management team at a Madison Avenue PR firm, Leonard Lundell spends his days counseling executives whose reputations have been ruined by scandal. But Leonard has been managing a strange and debilitating crisis of his own that's held him captive his entire adult life: Leonard likes to eat soap, pencils, paint chips--anything with no nutritional value.
For years, he's kept his compulsion hidden behind a professional veneer. But when he signs an important client, an antisocial file clerk unwittingly discovers Leonard's secret and blackmails him into accommodating her own bizarre culinary indulgences. A picaresque set against the backdrop of Madison Avenue's marketing machine in the months leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, The Appetite Factory examines the earliest days of our post-truth era, where a scandal-obsessed news cycle and social media's rise as an information platform have given birth to a culture addicted to recreational outrage and hell-bent on finding the next public figure to disgrace to keep ourselves entertained.
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