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A Short Film about Disappointment : A Novel by Joshua Mattson (2018, Hardcover)
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- Type
- Novel
- ISBN
- 9780525522843
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0525522840
ISBN-13
9780525522843
eBay Product ID (ePID)
240573566
Product Key Features
Book Title
Short Film about Disappointment : a Novel
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Dystopian, Satire, Literary
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
14.3 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2018-006202
Reviews
"When dystopia subsumes the world, a hero must rise--at least, that's the kind of banal premise Noah Body expects of the films he reviews, or rather eviscerates, though he's so little read that his 'criticism' amounts to a solipsistic blog about his life and bad decisions. The future he inhabits is less operatically wicked than just stifling, and he has really no power, but he keeps dreaming of making real art and keeps screwing it up. In real life, Katniss Everdeen would be a pious adolescent bore--better to follow Noah and his messy humanity. One feels a little guilty for finding his suffering so funny." --Zachary Mason, author of The Lost Books of the Odyssey
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Synopsis
An ingenious novel about art and revenge, insisting on your dreams and hitting on your doctor, told in the form of 81 movie reviews. In near-future America, film critic Noah Body uploads his reviews to an underread 'Content Aggregator.' His job is dreary routine: watch, seethe, pan. He dreams of making his own film, free of the hackery of commercial cinema. Faced with writing on lousy movies for a website that no one reads, Noah smuggles into his reviews depictions of his troubled and marginal life. Set in a wildly imaginative and uncannily familiar world of nanny states and extreme rationing, Safe Zones and New Koreas., An ingenious novel about art and revenge, insisting on your dreams and hitting on your doctor, told in the form of 80 movie reviews In near-future America, film critic Noah Body uploads his reviews to a content aggregator. His job is routine: watch, seethe, pan. He dreams of making his own film, free from the hackery of commercial cinema. Faced with writing about lousy movies for a website that no one reads, Noah smuggles into his work episodes from his trainwreck of a life. We learn that his apartment in Miniature Aleppo has been stripped of furniture after his wife ran off with his best friend--who Noah believes has possessed his body. He's in the middle of an escalating grudge match against a vending machine tycoon with a penchant for violence. And he's infatuated with a doctor who has diagnosed him with a "disease of thought." Sapped by days performing the labor of entertainment, forced to voice opinions on cinema to earn his water rations, Noah is determined to create his own masterpiece, directed by and starring himself. Written by a debut novelist with a rotten wit and a singular imagination, A Short Film About Disappointment is a story about holding on to a scrap of hope in a joyously crummy world of nanny states and New Koreas., An ingenious novel about art and revenge, insisting on your dreams and hitting on your doctor, told in the form of 81 movie reviews.
LC Classification Number
PS3613.A8665S56 2018
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