TY  - BOOK
AU  - Laurens,Camille
TI  - Who you think I am
SN  - 9781590518328
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Other Press
KW  - Middle-aged women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Self-presentation
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
KW  - Virtual reality
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "Originally published in France as Celle que vous croyez by Éditions Gallimard, Paris, in 2016"--Title page verso
N2  - "In a vertiginous play of mirrors between fantasy and virtual reality, Camille Laurens relates the dangerous liaisons of a woman who refuses to give up on desire. This is the story of Claire Millecam, a 48 year-old teacher and divorcee, who creates a fake social media profile to try to keep tabs on Jo, her occasional, elusive, and inconstant lover. Under the false identity of Claire Antunes, a young and beautiful 24 year-old, she starts a correspondence with Chris--pseudonym KissChris--which soon turns into an Internet love affair. WHO YOU THINK I AM is a true novel of our times that brilliantly exposes the disconnect between desire and fantasy. Social media allows us to put ourselves on display, to indulge in secrets, but above all it allows us to lie, to recreate a life, to become our own fiction--a mixture of sentimental naivety and manipulative perversity which echoes the libertine novels of the 18th century"--; "This is the story of Claire Millecam, a forty-eight-year-old teacher and divorcee who creates a fake social media profile to try to keep tabs on Jo, her occasional, elusive, and inconstant lover. Under the false identity of Claire Antunes, a young and beautiful twenty-four-year-old, she starts a correspondence with Chris--pseudonym KissChris--which soon turns into an Internet love affair. Who You Think I Am is a true novel of our times that brilliantly exposes the disconnect between desire and fantasy. Social media allow us to put ourselves on display, to indulge in secrets, but above all to lie, to recreate a life, to become our own fiction--a mixture of sentimental naivety manipulative perversity which echoes the libertine novels of the eighteenth century."--
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