Title: The Book of Formation
Author: Ross Simonini
Language: English
Published: 14 November 2017
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 9781612196688
Extension: EPUB
Size: 5 MB
Subjects: Fiction, Literature, Humor (Fiction)
Categories: Fiction, Literature, Humor (Fiction)
This debut novel-told in interviews-spans 20 years in the rise and fall of the charismatic leader of a seductive self-help movement.
In the 1990s, a talk show host leads the "personality movement," an integrative approach to radical self-transformation. Mayah, the movement's architect and celebrity advocate, adopts a curious, wild child named Masha Isle. A guinea-pig for the movement, and the key to its future, Isle is the subject of the eight interviews that comprise this book.
As the interviewer's objectivity disintegrates-even as the movement's legitimacy becomes increasingly suspect-he becomes obsessed with Masha. And all of that is thrown into question when tragedy strikes.
The stunning debut of a new literary talent, and a fascinating take on the cult of personality: about celebrities need to destroy and recreate themselves to stay relevant, public personalities coming to belong to everyone, and about our need to see everyone as a kind of celebrity.
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