As If A Novel
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Farrar, Straus and Giroux
16,99 €
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
16.06.2026
Verlag
Farrar, Straus and GirouxSeitenzahl
192
Maße (L/B/H)
20,8/13,5/1,5 cm
Gewicht
159 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-374-62033-2
"A surreal existential caper exploring identity and performance, midlife purpose and regret, and the difficulty of finding-and escaping-yourself. Sly, absurd and poignant, it is a triumph of narrative voice." -The Spectator (UK)
Two men meet in an apartment in London. They are strangers to one another, and yet they look remarkably alike. Lewis is grieving his dead wife; Korine is hiding from his very-much-alive one. Lewis never had children; Korine has just walked out on his. Lewis is a retired actor whose career never amounted to much beyond a bit part on a B-list sitcom; Korine has always dreamed of acting.
Slowly and then all at once, each begins to live on the other's behalf. As Korine answers a casting call under Lewis's name, Lewis finds himself playing father to the other man's son. Each day the strange ruse becomes truer and stranger, more entrenched. Plunged into an existential game of cat-and-mouse, pursuit and retreat, they find that acting might make it possible to, finally, live.
Isabel Waidner's As If is a wily, propulsive, and unusually wise novel about what happens when we fall out of our roles and attempt to make new ones: a tale of thwarted expectation, renewed ambition, and the possibility of escape. It is the story of two men, or maybe one: a love story and a ghost story both.
"This is a stunning book with much to say about how grief can alter our life (or lives). A towering achievement from one of contemporary literature's most original minds." -Kirkus (Starred)
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