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Trick mirror : reflections on self-delusion /

By: Tolentino, Jia [author.].
Publisher: London : 4th Estate, 2019Description: xi, 303 pages ; 26 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780008294939 (pbk); 9780008294939:; 0008294933 (pbk); 9780008294922; 0008294925.Subject(s): American essays -- 21st century | Truthfulness and falsehood | Truth | United States -- Civilization -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 814.6 TOL
Contents:
The I in the Internet. -- Reality TV me. -- Always be optimizing. -- Pure heroines. -- Ecstasy. -- The story of a generation in seven scams. -- We come from old Virginia. -- The cult of the difficult woman. -- I thee dread.
Summary: From one of the brightest young chroniclers of US culture comes this collection of essays on the Internet, the self, feminism and politics. We are living in the era of the self, in an era of malleable truth and widespread personal and political delusion. In these nine interlinked essays, Jia Tolentino, the New Yorker's brightest young talent, explores her own coming of age in this warped and confusing landscape.
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The I in the Internet. -- Reality TV me. -- Always be optimizing. -- Pure heroines. -- Ecstasy. -- The story of a generation in seven scams. -- We come from old Virginia. -- The cult of the difficult woman. -- I thee dread.

From one of the brightest young chroniclers of US culture comes this collection of essays on the Internet, the self, feminism and politics. We are living in the era of the self, in an era of malleable truth and widespread personal and political delusion. In these nine interlinked essays, Jia Tolentino, the New Yorker's brightest young talent, explores her own coming of age in this warped and confusing landscape.

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