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Barcode33333003316102
Circ StatusAvailable
LibraryBeaver
TitleAmerican mermaid : a novel / Julia Langbein.
AuthorLangbein, Julia (Art historian), author.
Call NoFic Langbein
CollectionFiction
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Fic Langbein AvailableBeaverFiction   333330033161022023
Fic Langbein AvailableAliquippaFiction   300000029932062023
Fic Langbein AvailableAmbridgeFiction   311110024141652023

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780385549677
International Standard Book Number 0385549679
Personal Name Langbein, Julia (Art historian), author.
Title Statement American mermaid : a novel / Julia Langbein.
Edition Statement First edition.
Imprint New York : Doubleday, [2023]
Physical Description pages cm.
Summary, Etc. "A brilliantly funny and razor-tongued debut which follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt her feminist mermaid novel into a big-budget action film, who believes her heroine has come to life to take revenge for Hollywood's violations. Penelope Schleeman, a consistently broke Connecticut high school teacher, is as surprised as anyone when her sensitive debut novel, "American Mermaid"-the story of a wheelchair-bound scientist named Sylvia who discovers that her withered legs are the vestiges of a powerful tail-becomes a bestseller. Penelope soon finds herself lured to LA by promises of easy money to co-write the "American Mermaid" screenplay for a major studio with a pair of male hacks. As the studio pressures Penelope to change "American Mermaid" from the story of a fierce, androgynous eco-warrior to a teen sex object in a clam bra, strange things start to happen. Threats appear in the screenplay draft; siren calls lure people into danger. When Penelope's screenwriting partners try to kill Sylvia off entirely in a bitterly false but cinematic end, matters off the page escalate. Is Penelope losing her mind, or is Sylvia among us? American Mermaid follows a young woman braving a world of casual smiles and ruthless calculation, where she discovers a beating heart in her own fiction--a creature she'll do anything to protect. By turns both a comic and fabulously insightful tale of two female characters in search of truth, love, and self-acceptance as they move between worlds without giving up their voices"-- Provided by publisher.
Index Term-Genre/Form Humorous fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels.