The Optimist - Couverture rigide

Kipner, Sophie

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 178352362X ISBN 13 : 9781783523627

Editeur : Unbound, 2017

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

If confidence and creativity were the highest of virtues, Tabitha Gray would be the reigning queen, redefining in her enigmatic way what it actually looks like to be a truly hopeless romantic. The lines between real life and her fantastical imagination are not just blurred, they are one and the same. Maybe that’s why Tabby finds it so difficult to find love.

Growing up wasn’t easy for Tabby. But somehow she’s ended up with an aggressive strain of optimism, allowing her to endure every misstep as she inadvertently obscures every attempt at romance. Where most people think, fantasize and dream, Tabby says, feels and does. Under the awkwardness, the agonising embarrassments and the delusions, she continues to push ferociously... but will it be her quest for love that eventually pushes her to the edge?

This book is a stunning and very funny debut about coming of age in California. It is a tribute to all those who make the same mistakes time and time again yet carry on in the face of absurdity, disappointment and desperation… all the while remaining relentlessly optimistic.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Meet Tabitha Gray, a delusional girl from Topanga, California, who redefines what it means to be a truly hopeless romantic. Tabby suffers from an aggressive strain of cock-eyed optimism – no amount of failure, embarrassment or humiliation can dent her fierce belief that real, true, lasting love is just around the corner.

Where most people think, fantasize and dream, Tabby says, feels and does. Whether waiting in her lingerie for Harrison Ford to open the door of his hotel room; following Al Pacino around a Russian bathhouse; seeking passion with a blind man on the advice of a wise old woman with dementia; or sending intimate photos to a random sexter with an apparently charming dick, Tabby refuses to be crushed by her many misadventures.

In this warmly witty debut novel, Sophie Kipner takes a satirical look at the extremity of romantic desperation, and pays tribute to the deep human need to keep on heroically searching for love despite our many absurdities.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Unbound
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 178352362X
• ISBN 13: 9781783523627
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384