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Shoplifting from American Apparel

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Vignettes of youth navigating life's melancholic absurdity.

"Shoplifting from American Apparel" offers a raw slice of contemporary urban life through the eyes of an introspective young writer. It's a book that delves into the existential musings of the millennial generation, crafting a narrative that's both strikingly mundane and deeply reflective. If you're interested in a glimpse into the subcultures of modern America and the internal dialogues that shape our perceptions of success and morality, then this novella by Tao Lin might just resonate with you.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Shoplifting from American Apparel

Regular price ₱539.55 ₱391.05 28% off
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ISBN: 9781933633787
Authors: Tao Lin
Publisher: Melville House
Date of Publication: 2009-09-15
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Poetry, Drama, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Goodreads rating: 3.14
(rated by 4193 readers)

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Set mostly in Manhattan—although also featuring Atlantic City, Brooklyn, GMail Chat, and Gainsville, Florida—this autobiographical novella, spanning two years in the life of a young writer with a cultish following, has been described by the author as “A shoplifting book about vague relationships,” “2 parts shoplifting arrest, 5 parts vague relationship issues,” and “An ultimately life-affirming book about how the unidirectional nature of time renders everything beautiful and sad.” From VIP rooms in hip New York City clubs to central booking in Chinatown, from New York University’ s Bobst Library to a bus in someone’s backyard in a college-town in Florida, from Bret Easton Ellis to Lorrie Moore, and from Moby to Ghost Mice, it explores class, culture, and the arts in all their American forms through the funny, journalistic, and existentially-minded narrative of someone trying to both “not be a bad person” and “find some kind of happiness or something,” while he is driven by his failures and successes at managing his art, morals, finances, relationships, loneliness, confusion, boredom, future, and depression.
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Vignettes of youth navigating life's melancholic absurdity.

"Shoplifting from American Apparel" offers a raw slice of contemporary urban life through the eyes of an introspective young writer. It's a book that delves into the existential musings of the millennial generation, crafting a narrative that's both strikingly mundane and deeply reflective. If you're interested in a glimpse into the subcultures of modern America and the internal dialogues that shape our perceptions of success and morality, then this novella by Tao Lin might just resonate with you.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.