How to Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior by Kipnis, Laura

How to Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312610579)

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How to Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior by Kipnis, Laura

How to Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior

$20.00
How to Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior by Kipnis, Laura

How to Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

We all relish a good scandal. Why do people feel compelled to act out their tangled psychodramas on the national stage, and why do we so enjoy watching them? The motifs are classic--revenge, betrayal, ambition, madness--though the pitfalls are ones we all negotiate daily. After all, every one of us is a potential scandal in the making: failed self-knowledge and colossal self-deception--the necessary ingredients--are our collective plight. How to Become a Scandal is an extremely smart, funny, acid, and beautifully written meditation on a scary truth that we all try desperately to ignore (David Shields, author of Reality Hunger: A Manifesto).

Author: Laura Kipnis
ISBN-10: 0312610572
ISBN-13: 9780312610579
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Language: English
Published: 08/30/2011
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 09/18/2011 pg. 32
By Laura Kipnis
By Laura Kipnis
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Laura Kipnis is the author of Against Love: A Polemic and The Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability, which have been translated into fifteen languages. She is a professor in the Department of Radio/TV/Film at Northwestern University, has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, and has contributed to Slate, Harper's, The Nation, and The New York Times Magazine. She lives in New York and Chicago.

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