{"product_id":"the-fabrications-9780912887470","title":"The Fabrications","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Bloch, a popular London novelist, starts writing a fictionalized story featuring his unremarkable friend Oscar, the invented details from the story start to come true. Gradually, Oscar embarks on a surreal odyssey into fame, while Bloch descends into the dark places of his soul. Oscar falls in love with Najette, a bewitching painter, but their relationship hangs in the balance as his myth balloons out of all proportion. At the centre of the hype and spin stands the demon-like publicist Ryan Rees, whose power enables him to manufacture the truth, and the story builds to an unforgettable, startling climax.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Fabrications is a novel possessing peculiar relevance to our tumultuous times. It addresses the myths of celebrity, the power of the internet and the media to disfigure and distort, and the madness of our culture, in which prophets, truths and legends can all be invented.\u003cbr\u003e Part satirical comedy; part meditation on synchronicity, sex and identity; and part love story, The Fabrications is unclassifiably new, abandoning realism to create a strange parallel world. It is a wildly inventive work, with a vast canvas of dazzling, grotesque characters, and will take you on a compelling journey filled with pathos, humour and subversive beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Baret Magarian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pleasure Boat Studio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 444\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.99d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780912887470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/15\/2017 pg. 195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMagarian, Baret:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Baret Magarian is of Armenian extraction, from London. He was a freelance journalist and contributed articles to \u003cem\u003eThe Times, The Guardian, The Independent\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e. He has interviewed such diverse figures as Peter Ustinov, the brilliant actor- director and raconteur, John Calder, iconoclastic publisher of eighteeen Nobel prize winners, and Salman Rushdie, the celebrated novelist. He has worked as a lecturer, translator, fringe theatre director, actor and nude model. He is also a composer of piano music that is in the vein of Jarrett and Alkan and draws on the tonalities of Armenian music. His fiction has appeared in \u003cem\u003eWorld Literature Today, Journal of Italian Translation, White Fly Press, The Sandspout\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSagarana\u003c\/em\u003e. His monologue \u003cem\u003eThe Pain Tapestry\u003c\/em\u003e was recently staged in English in Reykjavik, Iceland.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pleasure Boat Studio","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40245489008755,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":22.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_6416c112-160f-4435-9972-bc7e14ad133c.jpg?v=1657292457","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-fabrications-9780912887470","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}