Note to Self - Hardcover

Simone, Alina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0865478996 ISBN 13: 9780865478992

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013

Synopsis

Simone, Alina

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About the Author

Alina Simone is a critically acclaimed singer who was born in Kharkov, Ukraine, and now lives in Brooklyn. Her music has been covered by a wide range of media, including BBC's The World, NPR, Spin, Billboard, The New Yorker, and The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of You Must Go and Win, a collection of essays. Note to Self is her first novel.

Reviews

Simone’s debut opens with 37-year-old Anna Krestler getting fired from her dead-end job at a New York law firm. Adrift in a sea of ennui, she surfs the Internet obsessively and tries to get close to her busy roommate, Brie, a twentysomething intern who is certain her big opportunity is just around the corner. Anna’s cybersurfing leads her to the work of auteur Paul Gilman, a director whose controversial work has a distinctly pornographic bent. Anna finds her way to Taj, a Gilman disciple who hires Anna (for no pay) to work as a production assistant on a series of wish-fulfillment shorts he’s shooting. Taj encourages Anna to pursue her own filmmaking aspirations, and their relationship takes a romantic turn, but she’s in for more than she bargained for when she agrees to go to Los Angeles with him. Simone captures Anna’s listless existence and her efforts to break out of her terminal inertia in this deft exploration of modern malaise. --Kristine Huntley

Edition details

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865478996
• ISBN 13: 9780865478992
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256