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005			20230329143856.0
008			220725s2023 nyu e 000 f eng
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020			_a9780385549677 _qhardcover
020			_a0385549679 _qhardcover
020			_a9780593470145 _qpaperback
020			_a0593470141 _qpaperback
035			_a(OCoLC)1333921284 _z(OCoLC)1372192774
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092			_aLANGBEIN _bJULIA
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aLangbein, Julia _c(Art historian), _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAmerican mermaid : _ba novel / _cJulia Langbein.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bDoubleday, _c[2023]
300			_a329 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"A brilliantly funny and razor-tongued debut which follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt her feminist mermaid novel into a big-budget action film, who believes her heroine has come to life to take revenge for Hollywood's violations. Penelope Schleeman, a consistently broke Connecticut high school teacher, is as surprised as anyone when her sensitive debut novel, "American Mermaid"--the story of a wheelchair-bound scientist named Sylvia who discovers that her withered legs are the vestiges of a powerful tail--becomes a bestseller. Penelope soon finds herself lured to LA by promises of easy money to co-write the "American Mermaid" screenplay for a major studio with a pair of male hacks. As the studio pressures Penelope to change "American Mermaid" from the story of a fierce, androgynous eco-warrior to a teen sex object in a clam bra, strange things start to happen. Threats appear in the screenplay draft; siren calls lure people into danger. When Penelope's screenwriting partners try to kill Sylvia off entirely in a bitterly false but cinematic end, matters off the page escalate. Is Penelope losing her mind, or is Sylvia among us? American Mermaid follows a young woman braving a world of casual smiles and ruthless calculation, where she discovers a beating heart in her own fiction--a creature she'll do anything to protect. By turns both a comic and fabulously insightful tale of two female characters in search of truth, love, and self-acceptance as they move between worlds without giving up their voices"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aMermaids _vFiction. _964812
650		0	_aWomen _vFiction. _948213
650		0	_aScreenwriters _vFiction. _947850
651		0	_aLos Angeles (Calif.) _vFiction. _910936
655		7	_aHumorous fiction. _2lcgft _9326
655		7	_aNovels. _2lcgft _92408
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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