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American Mermaid, Julia Langbein
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2024
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- Titel
- American Mermaid
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Julia Langbein
- Verlag
- Random House LLC US
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2024
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0593470141
- ISBN13
- 9780593470145
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Fantasy, Gegenwartsliteratur, Erotik, Geschenke für Jugendliche, Magischer Realismus, Meerjungfrauen
- Bewertung
- 3,2 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR • "Sublime." — New York Times Book Review"Brilliantly sharp, funny, and thought-provoking, the gripping story of a woman trying to find her way in our chaotic world." —Madeline Miller, bestselling author of CirceBroke English teacher Penelope Schleeman is as surprised as anyone when her feminist, eco-warrior novel American Mermaid becomes a best-seller. But when Hollywood insists she convert her fierce, androgynous protagonist into to a teen sex object in a clamshell bra, strange things start to happen. Is Penelope losing her mind, or has her fictional mermaid come to life, enacting revenge against society’s limited view of what a woman can and should be?American Mermaid follows a young woman braving the casual slights and cruel calculations of a winner-take-all society and discovering a beating heart in her own a new kind of hero who fights to keep her voice and choose her place. A hilarious story about deep things, American Mermaid asks how far we’ll go to protect the parts of ourselves that are not for sale.