Bunny: TikTok made me buy it!
Autor Mona Awaden Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 feb 2020
Simțim, încă de la primele pagini, o tensiune latentă care plutește peste idilicul campus al Universității Warren, o atmosferă care pendulează între ridicolul absolut și o neliniște viscerală. În Bunny, Mona Awad ne introduce în universul Samanthei Heather Mackey, o studentă bursieră care privește cu un amestec de dispreț și fascinație grupul exclusivist de scriere creativă din care face parte. Aceste 'Iepurașe' — fete bogate, aparent inofensive, care se strigă obsesiv cu același apelativ — ascund sub stratul de zahăr și politețe performativă un ritual colectiv mult mai întunecat. Notăm cu interes cum autoarea deconstruiește dinamica puterii în cadrul prieteniilor feminine, transformând o satiră academică într-un horror suprarealist. Cititorul care a apreciat explorarea identității și a alienării din Banal Nightmare de Halle Butler va găsi aici o critică similar de tăioasă la adresa feminității moderne, dar transpusă într-un context mult mai halucinogen și violent. Dacă în 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl sau în Rouge, Mona Awad investiga obsesia pentru imagine și standardele estetice, în Bunny ea împinge această explorare spre absurd, unde dorința de apartenență devine o forță creatoare — și distrugătoare — de monștri. Stilul este unul visceral, cu imagini care persistă mult timp după închiderea cărții, oferind o experiență de lectură care refuză confortul soluțiilor simple.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1788545443
Pagini: 373
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Head of Zeus
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
De ce să citești această carte
Pentru cititorii care caută o narațiune ce sfidează genurile literare clasice, Bunny oferă o incursiune fascinantă în psihologia de grup și în izolarea mediului academic. Este o recomandare excelentă pentru cei care savurează umorul negru și poveștile în care granița dintre realitate și halucinație se estompează, oferind un comentariu social incisiv despre nevoia de a fi acceptat cu orice preț.
Despre autor
Mona Awad, născută în Montreal și stabilită în prezent în SUA, este o voce distinctă în literatura contemporană, recunoscută pentru modul în care împletește satira cu elemente de horror gotic. Absolventă a Universității York din Toronto, ea a debutat cu 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, volum distins cu Amazon Best First Novel Award în 2016 și nominalizat la Giller Prize. Opera sa, care include titluri precum All's Well și Rouge, explorează recurent teme legate de corpul feminin, standardele de frumusețe și complexitatea relațiilor interpersonale, fiind publicată în reviste de prestigiu precum TIME și VICE.
Recenzii
Hilarious and subversive, magical and knife-sharp. This novel - a send-up of academia, an astute exploration of class in creative circles, and an ode to the uncanny power of art - confirms Mona Awad as one of our great chroniclers of what it means to be alive right now
It is not an exaggeration to say that I devoured Bunny - teeth, fur, claws and all... A truly delectable novel that is equal parts wit, fancy, and wickedness. Unafraid to challenge some sacrosanct notions about women artists, female friendship, and writing, her book is a compulsively readable testament to the sheer creative force of loneliness and longing'
One of the most pristine and delightful attacks on popular girls since Clueless. Made me nod and cackle in terrified recognition
The Secret History meets Jennifer's Body. This brilliant, sharp, weird book skewers the heightened rhetoric of obsessive female friendship in a way I don't think I've ever seen before. I loved it and I couldn't put it down
Awad's outstanding novel follows the highly addictive, darkly comedic tale of sardonic Samantha Mackey, a poetry MFA student at a top-tier New England school... An enchanting and stunningly bizarre novel'
A highly original, dark, gothic novel, at once exuberantly weird and extremely funny
To call this a dark comedy undersells the richness of its message, and to say it's a satire misses its realism. Bunny is so sharp it will leave you bloody
By the time the first head explodes a third of the way through, you wonder how Awad can possibly keep it up. But she's clearly had a blast... And her sheer panache powers you through the hilarious, hallucinogenic freakery'
Throbbing with the kind of satire Heathers would f**k you gently with a chainsaw for, this is one-of-a-kind delicious
A brilliant, utterly unique peek into the dark side of female friendship. Part thriller, part horror, part teen drama, it's like Mean Girls with added menace, and impossible not to relish
Picture that famous Bake Off scene; 'started making it, had a breakdown, bon appetit', and welcome to the world of Bunny... Bunny leaves you feeling bereft in a way where you have been fed generously throughout the novel, only to be denied dessert... So much of Sam's journey is left for you to decide in regards to whether it was real or not. Was it a hallucination? Witchcraft? Crack? Is it even real... I'm still deciding'
I went into reading Bunny knowing nothing at all about the plot. All I'd heard is that it was like The Secret History meets Jennifer's Body. Mona Awad crafts a story that feels like you've stumbled across a lucid dream, and during lockdown last year I took comfort in its weirdness, its humour and its darkness
A kooky 2020 novel... Bunny is a dark, weird, funny campus novel about a tight group of girlfriends, reminiscent of the 1988 cult film Heathers
A kooky 2020 novel... Bunny is a dark, weird, funny campus novel about a tight group of girlfriends, reminiscent of the 1988 cult film Heathers
Caracteristici
Notă biografică
Mona Awad was born in Montreal and now lives in the USA. A graduate of York University in Toronto, her debut novel, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, won the 2016 Amazon Best First Novel Award, the Colorado Book Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Arab American Book Award. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney's, TIME magazine, Electric Literature, VICE, The Walrus and elsewhere.
Descriere scurtă
THE TIKTOK SENSATIONMeet BUNNY: the darkly funny, spellbinding trip of a novel that EVERYONE is talking about'No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled. O Bunny you are sooo genius!' MARGARET ATWOODWe call them Bunnies because that is what they call each other. Seriously. Bunny.Samantha Heather Mackey is an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at Warren University. In fact, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort - a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other 'Bunny'.But then the Bunnies issue her with an invitation and Samantha finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door, across the threshold, and down their rabbit hole.Blending sharp satire with fairytale horror, Bunny provides a hilarious look at the dark side of female friendship from one of fiction's most original voices.'The Secret History meets Jennifer's Body. Brilliant, sharp, weird... I loved it and I couldn't put it down.' KRISTEN ROUPENIAN 'Made me nod and cackle in terrified recognition.' LENA DUNHAM 'Hilarious, hallucinogenic freakery.' DAILY MAIL 'Cerebral and complusively readable.' VANITY FAIR