Reena Spaulings

di Bernadette Corporation (Autore)

MIT Press Ltd, 2005

A novel set in post-9/11 New York City about a supermodel and the ultimate Broadway blockbuster. Set in post-9/11 New York City, Reena Spaulings was written by a large collective of writers and artists that bills itself as The Bernadette Corporation. Like most contemporary fiction, Reena Spaulings is about a female twenty-something. Reena is discovered while working as a museum guard and becomes a rich international supermodel. Meanwhile, a bout of terrible weather seizes New York, leaving in its wake a strange form of civil disobedience that stirs its citizens to mount a musical song-and-dance riot called "Battle on Broadway." Fashioned in the old Hollywood manner by a legion of professional and amateur writers striving to achieve the ultimate blockbuster, the musical ends up being about a nobody who could be anybody becoming a somebody for everybody. The result is generic and perfect-not unlike Reena Spaulings itself, whose many authors create a story in which New York itself strives to become the ultimate collective experiment in which the only thing shared is the lack of uniqueness.

• Autore: Bernadette Corporation
• Editore: MIT Press Ltd
• Collana: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
• Anno: 2005
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 216 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 340 gr.
• EAN: 9781584350309

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