EAN: 9780593470145

AMERICAN MERMAID - JULIA LANGBEIN KARTONIERT (TB)

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--

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