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ID: 292738
Title: Fake Plastic Love: A Novel
Author: Kimberley Tait
Narrator: Khristine Hvam
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14:01:37
Language: English
Release date: 05-09-17
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Coming of Age, Contemporary Women
Summary:
Prepare yourself for a daring, unsparing takedown of millennial Manhattan, trick by glossy trick. Beatriz Williams
We are a bifurcated generation, the Romantics versus the Realists: those who prefer transistor radios to Bose sound systems, scuffed ocean liner trunks to gleaming Rimowa hard shells, fountain pens to BlackBerry keyboards, restored old roadsters to eco-friendly hybrids, the unsmudgeable guarantee of old illusions to present-life ones, tinny and certain to disappoint.
When M. meets Belle at Dartmouth, they become the unlikeliest best friends. Belle is an unapologetic Romantic famous on campus for her bright red accessories and hundred-watt smile, while M. is a tomboyish Realist who insists shell always prefer her signet ring to any diamond. Despite their differences, they are drawn together, and after graduation they both move to New York with all the unfounded confidence of twenty-two. M. secures a job at the citys most prestigious investment bank, and Belle turns her nostalgic aesthetic into one of the first lifestyle blogs, which quickly goes viral. Their future is spread before them, a glittering tableau of vintage cocktails, password-guarded parties, and high-octane ambition. But as they are pulled deeper into their new lives, and into the charming orbit of their Gatsby-esque new friend, Jeremy, style and substanceand dreams and realityincreasingly blur. In this fake plastic world, what do success and love and happiness even look like?
Dazzling, whimsical, and full of yearning, Fake Plastic Love is the transporting story of bright young things tested by the unsentimental realities of post-graduate life. Tipping its hat to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kimberley Taits gorgeous, incisive debut is a portrait of millennial Manhattanequal parts nostalgia and modernitythat explores the timeless question: You will be a grand total of what you spend your time doing, so what do you want to add up to?
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