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How to Be Somebody Else

How to Be Somebody Else

1st paperback ed

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Publisher's Synopsis

When Dylan begins an affair with Gabe, nothing will be the same again.

'A stunning novel… The sentences buzz and hum'
SAMANTHA HARVEY

'This debut about a thirtysomething's tangled web of lust has literary oomph'
SUNDAY TIMES

On the surface Dylan has achieved the impossible - a life in New York. And yet it is not the thing she'd imagined. When she walks out of her career, then apartment, and into a housesit for an artist she's never met, she does not tell her friends, her family, or her boyfriend Matt.

But how much can a person change? At a party she meets her new neighbour Gabe, who is married to Kate, and the affair that follows consumes her. She resolves to explore what is fixed and what is variable, until an unexpected encounter between the two couples forces Dylan to confront her future.

'Unsettling and original'
TESSA HADLEY

'Stylish, sharp, genuinely funny'
CLAIRE POWELL

'So sharp and well observed'
REBECCA WAIT

'Impressive'
OBSERVER

***A MARIE CLAIRE BEST BOOK OF 2024***

About the Publisher

Vintage

Vintage is a highly respected paperback publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, publishing writers like Philip Roth, Martin Amis and Toni Morrison. There are many Booker and Nobel Prize-winning authors on the Vintage list such as Kingsley Amis, A S Byatt, J M Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Anne Enright, Iris Murdoch, Roddy Doyle and Ben Okri, to name a few.

Book information

ISBN: 9781529933390
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Vintage
Pub date:
Edition: 1st paperback ed
DEWEY: 823.92
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 206g
Height: 197mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 21mm