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No one is talking about this: a novel

✍ Scribed by Patricia Lockwood

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group; Riverhead Books
Year: 2021
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 111 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0593332547

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✦ Synopsis

**"A furiously original novel" --Jia Tolentino

From "a formidably gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet?**
As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now dictating her thoughts. When existential threats--from climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an epidemic of loneliness--begin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the portal's void. An avalanche of images, details, and references accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense, post-irony, post-everything. "Are we in hell?" the people of the portal...

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