{"product_id":"pretty-things-9781936932276","title":"Pretty Things","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA pulpy tale of mismatched twins struggling to embody the perfect woman: \"Effortlessly cool and slyly spiky, Despentes probes the dynamics of fame, beauty, and female competition, putting her finger on the pulse of what it's like to wear the daily drag of femininity--and then pressing down, slowly and calmly, right where it hurts\" (Alexandra Kleeman, author of \u003cem\u003eYou Too Can Have a Body Like Mine\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClaudine has always been pretty and Pauline has always been ugly. But when Claudine wants to become famous, she convinces gloomy Pauline--with her angelic voice--to pretend they're the same person. Yet just as things take off, Claudine commits suicide.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePauline hatches a new scheme, pulling on her dead sister's identity, inhabiting her apartment, and reading her mail. As the impersonation continues, Pauline slowly realizes that the cost of femininity is to dazzle on the outside while rotting away on the inside--and that womanhood is what ultimately killed her sister.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"It's pulp in every sense: propulsively readable, violent, sexy, with all the satisfaction of an inevitable ending. And yet it's also a feminist parable, blunt and unrelenting in its wrath, and it feels as fresh now as it would have ten years ago.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Feminist Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/14\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781936932276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/18\/2018\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Virginie Despentes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36671196070044,"sku":"9781936932276","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_077aa89a-ce99-42cb-aa0e-81d342021af7.jpg?v=1603924804","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/pretty-things-9781936932276","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}