Something New Under the Sun - by Alexandra Kleeman (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"East-coast novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Hollywood with simple goals in mind: overseeing the production of a film adaptation of one of his books, preventing starlet Cassidy Carter's disruptive behavior from derailing said production, and turning this last-ditch effort at career resuscitation into the sort of success that will dazzle his wife and daughter back home. But California is not as he imagined: drought, wildfire, and corporate corruption are omnipresent, and the company behind a mysterious new brand of synthetic water seems to be at the root of it all. Partnering with Cassidy--after having been her reluctant chauffeur for weeks--the two of them investigate the sun-scorched city's darker crevices, where they discover that catastrophe resembles order until the last possible second"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><b><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> EDITORS' CHOICE -</b> A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with ambition, corruption, and connectedness in the age of environmental collapse and ecological awakening--a darkly unsettling near-future novel for readers of Don DeLillo and Ottessa Moshfegh</b><br><b><br><b>ONE OF <i>VULTURE</i>'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR -</b> <b>ONE OF SUMMER'S BEST BOOKS: <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> - <i>Time</i> - <i>Parade</i> - <i>LitHub</i> - <i>Vanity Fair - Vogue - Refinery29 - Esquire</i></b> <p/>"A darkly satirical reflection of ecological reality."--<i>Time</i><br>"Genius."--<i>Los Angeles Times</i></b><br><b>"Wildly entertaining and beautifully written."--<i>LitHub</i></b><br></b><br>East Coast novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Hollywood with simple goals in mind: overseeing the production of a film adaptation of one of his books, preventing starlet Cassidy Carter's disruptive behavior from derailing said production, and turning this last-ditch effort at career resuscitation into the sort of success that will dazzle his wife and daughter back home. But California is not as he imagined: Drought, wildfire, and corporate corruption are omnipresent, and the company behind a mysterious new brand of synthetic water seems to be at the root of it all. Patrick partners with Cassidy--after having been her reluctant chauffeur for weeks--and the two of them investigate the sun-scorched city's darker crevices, where they discover that catastrophe resembles order until the last possible second. <p/>In this often-witty and all-too-timely story, Alexandra Kleeman grapples with the corruption of our environment in the age of alternative facts. <i>Something New Under the Sun </i>is a meticulous and deeply felt accounting of our very human anxieties, liabilities, dependencies, and, ultimately, responsibility to truth.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Kleeman is a visionary writer . . . She's also very funny. These two qualities are shown to great effect here, as she turns her attention to the movie business, our looming climate crisis, corporate malfeasance and the Disney child star system. It's a brilliant, ambitious book."<b>--<i>Refinery29</i></b> <p/>"With nods to Beckett and Stoppard, Kleeman juxtaposes fiery doom with passages of sharp, absurdist dialogue and a sprinkle of one-liners reminiscent of Fleabag."<b>--<i>Instyle</i></b> <p/>"The varieties of emergency--ecological, psychological, familial, medical--are the half-hidden subject of Kleeman's novel, burning at the periphery of what begins as a modishly detached rollick through Hollywood and its empty promises. . . . It is a ghost story not of the past but of the near future, a ghost story as alarm bell, one hard to leave in the realm of fiction."<b>--<i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/>"Kleeman's world is unsettled, but so is ours. And she leans into that unsettledness to create a world that is just a few notches more uncanny than our own, starkly making the absurdity of ours that much more clear."<b><i>--Nylon</i></b> <p/>"Kleeman's great skill, and this novel's abiding triumph, is how seamlessly she blends the horrific with the mundanely troubling, the ridiculous--or the impossible--with the ordinarily absurd."<b><i>--LA Review of Books<br></i></b><br>"Throughout, Kleeman writes expressively about place and the manifold ways our lives are shaped by our imperiled environment, foregrounding the slow-motion catastrophe of climate change and its attendant anxieties."<b>--<i>Vulture</i></b> <p/>"Because this is an Alexandra Kleeman novel, none of it goes where you think it's going to, but it's all so wildly entertaining and beautifully written that it really doesn't matter where you end up."<b>--<i>Literary Hub</i></b> <p/>"Written with tremendous verve and flair, <i>Something New Under the Sun</i> is both an urgent novel about our very near future and a deeply addictive pleasure. . . . Kleeman is a phenomenon, one of the most brilliant and gifted writers at work today."<b>--Katie Kitamura</b> <p/>"Alexandra Kleeman expertly conjures California noir filtered through the ambient and not-so-ambient apocalypse."<b>--Emma Cline</b> <p/>"A magnificent and stunning novel, by turns hilarious, satirical, moving, and so very, very much what we need in these uncertain times."<b>-Jeff VanderMeer</b> <p/>"With this novel, Alexandra Kleeman confirms her place as one of the major writers of her generation. Reading it is like looking at a familiar room through warped glass: What you perceive is distorted and unsettling while remaining curiously beautiful."<b>--Esmé Weijun Wang</b> <p/>"<i>Something New Under the Sun</i> is a richly rendered ecological novel, characterized not only by how it sets the landscape but also by the fact that the landscape is quite often allowed to run the show. Kleeman is at her very best here. This is a book I'll be thinking about for years to come."<b>--Kristen Arnett</b> <p/>"Readers will be captivated by this intelligent, rip-roaring story."<b><i>--Publishers Weekly</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Alexandra Kleeman </b>is the author of <i>Intimations</i>, a short story collection, and the novel <i>You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine</i>, which was a <i>New York Times</i> Editor's Choice. Her fiction has been published in <i>The New Yorker</i>, <i>The Paris Review</i>, <i> Zoetrope</i>, <i>Conjunctions</i>, and <i>Guernica</i>, among other publications, and her other writing has appeared in <i>Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Tin House, n+1</i>, and <i>The Guardian</i>. Her work has received fellowships and support from Bread Loaf, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. She is the winner of the Berlin Prize and the Bard Fiction Prize, and was a Rome Prize Literature Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. She lives in Staten Island and teaches at the New School.
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