Showing results for "Fake!" in Literary Fiction

On the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration, a young woman snoops through her boyfriend’s phone and makes a startling discovery: he’s an anonymous internet conspiracy theorist, and a popular one at that. Already fluent in internet fakery, irony and outrage, she’s not exactly shocked by the revelation. But this is only the first in a series of bizarre twists that expose a world whose truths are shaped by online lies. Suddenly left with no reason to stay in New York—or be anywhere in particular—she flees to Berlin....

A scammer as alluring as she is elusive irrevocably upends the lives of two strangers in this gripping novel from the acclaimed author of The Best Kind of People. “The genius of Zoe Whittall’s writing is her clear-eyed understanding of human nature, which she lays on the page in beautiful...

Daniel Loveless and Charlotte McManus—aka Charlie—have been best friends since forever. Together, they’ve made it through everything from middle school dances to Daniel finding out he had a daughter, and they’re still thick as thieves. Faking an engagement, though? That’s… a lot.

An Australian literary hoax lies at the core of My Life as a Fake, Peter Carey's captivating contemplation of the art world. In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode-Douglass, editor of a London poetry journal, meets the mysterious Christopher Chubb. An Australian literary hoaxer, Chubb is carting around a manuscript likely filled with deceit. In this dubious work Sarah recognises a real genius. But whose genius? She is drawn into a fantastic story of imposture, murder, kidnapping and exile, which couldn't be true unless its teller were mad. Or perhaps haunted.

In our bureaucratized culture, we’re inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of complaint, end-of-year reports, accidentally forwarded email, traffic updates, ad infinitum. David Shields and Matthew Vollmer, both writers and professors, have gathered 40 short fictions that they’ve found to be seriously hilarious and irresistibly teachable (in both writing and literature courses): counterfeit texts that capture the barely suppressed frustration and yearning that percolate just below the surface of most official documents. 

CAREY LOGAN She was the genius wild child of the New York art scene, and my idol. FAKE I was a no-name painter from the Florida backwater, clawing my way into their world. LIKE When she died, she left a space that couldn't be filled. Except, maybe, by ME Everything that gets created destroys...

Saul Dressing is a flabby middle-aged librarian who just wants to be left alone to listen to jazz, watch porn, and cultivate his toenails. All of this changes when a soldier in a camouflage sweat suit shows up to draft him into the army of the United States of Everything. His mission is simple: Go to a foreign country no one has ever heard of and incite the opposition to strike first. All alone in the middle of a desert with no enemy in sight, Saul must come to terms with the absurdity of his situation. Thus begins a surreal journey into the politics of war, consumerism, and giant robots.

"This novel made me want to retire from contemporary reality. I loved it." —Zadie Smith A woman in a tailspin discovers that her boyfriend is an anonymous online conspiracy theorist in this “incisive” and “funny” debut novel that “brilliantly captures the claustrophobia of lives led...

Pour François Berlau, le plus jeune président de la République jamais élu, la première année du quinquennat fut un quasi-sans-faute : des résultats économiques encourageants, un leadership européen revendiqué, une France qui retrouve son rang sur la scène internationale... La deuxième année, en revanche, est infernale, ponctuée par des assassinats non élucidés de personnalités politiques de premier plan, puis par un énorme scandale le visant personnellement à travers le financement de sa campagne. S'agit-il de fake news ?

“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...

It's a marriage of convenience for three months. But will it turn into something more? Rachel Parker is a problem solver for Bixby International. There is no problem that is too big or too small that she can’t solve. Unfortunately, she can’t seem to tackle the problems in her own personal...

New York, 1987: In a city torn apart by racial tension, Damien Cavalieri is an adolescent without a tribe. His mother - who pines for the 1950s Brooklyn Italian community she grew up in - fears he lacks commitment to his heritage. Damien's fellow Staten Islanders agree, dubbing him a "fake Italian" and bullying him for being artistic.

Mikey makes everything a joke, even the clinical depression he's struggled with for years. After a run of failed jobs, he becomes the unlikely basketball coach at a high school for high-risk offenders who are experiencing mental illness. The position becomes suddenly available after the team tried to strangle their last coach.

Sie braucht Karibik, Sonne, Flamingos. Er braucht ihren Hund. Was nur einer von beiden geplant hat: ein Spiel, das alles verändert. Als wäre es nicht schlimm genug, mit einem schmutzigen Abendkleid nach der katastrophalsten Hochzeit des Jahres auf einer Parkbank aufzuwachen, dämmert Marisa...

Er braucht eine Ehe. Sie braucht Abstand. Was keiner von beiden geplant hat: Gefühle. Wie gebannt starrt Marisa ihn an. Vor Schreck vergisst sie sogar zu atmen, denn nie und nimmer hätte die eher unscheinbare Partyplanerin auf ihrem Kontrollgang einen so verdammt attraktiven Mann im Badezimmer...

Can the truth really set you free? Genevieve Applegate is tired of her stagnant life and she's ready to make a change by going after her dream job in New Jersey. The listing seems ideal when Genevieve scans it, but a big surprise comes at her interview: Out Shore Magazine is an LGBT publication. She's willing to work around this detail with an innocent lie, one she'll keep from her longtime boyfriend as well as her new boss, Harper Davies.

Wer soll dir jetzt noch glauben? Patrick Dostert traut seinen Ohren nicht, als ihn die beiden Beamten der Kripo Erfurt mit ihrem Verdacht konfrontieren. Er soll drei Tage zuvor eine Frau misshandelt und entführt haben. Patrick hat ein Alibi für die Tatnacht, doch der einzige Zeuge, der ihn entlasten könnte, bleibt unauffindbar. Und die beste Freundin des Opfers belastet ihn schwer. Patrick beteuert verzweifelt seine Unschuld, bis das Video auftaucht. Das Video, in dem er zu sehen ist. Das ihn überführt. Obwohl er dem Opfer noch nie begegnet ist.

Wer soll dir jetzt noch glauben? Patrick Dostert traut seinen Ohren nicht, als ihn die beiden Beamten der Kripo Erfurt mit ihrem Verdacht konfrontieren. Er soll drei Tage zuvor eine Frau misshandelt und entführt haben. Patrick hat ein Alibi für die Tatnacht, doch der einzige Zeuge, der ihn entlasten könnte, bleibt unauffindbar. Und die beste Freundin des Opfers belastet ihn schwer. Patrick beteuert verzweifelt seine Unschuld, bis das Video auftaucht. Das Video, in dem er zu sehen ist. Das ihn überführt. Obwohl er dem Opfer noch nie begegnet ist.

Life resembles the process of cooking a hearty stew. Take a disillusioned woman who feels her clock ticking and is desperate to escape her overbearing mother. Add a man who is a lazy freeloader, accustomed to mooching off everyone he encounters. Stir in a sprinkle of attraction, a dash of cunning, and a pinch of love. Now, just let the mixture simmer gently, allow their viewpoints to shift, and watch as their lives develop into something remarkable.