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Colours Insulting to Nature

Colours Insulting to Nature A Novel

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Publisher's Synopsis

A hilarious and original debut novel that skewers our craze for celebrity.

Liza Normal, like a million teenagers before her, wants desperately to be famous. If she can't be famous, she'll settle for infamy. But no Pop Idol contest on earth will ever crown someone like Liza, with her spookily vulgar 'vocal stylings' and her stripper's wardrobe. Her wits addled by celebrity culture, the ashes of failed stardom in her mouth, she decides to turn her back on her tinsel dreams and embrace her outsider status with a ferocious purity. COLOURS INSULTING TO NATURE is a brazenly hilarious oddysey through teen humiliation: the crushes who spurn her, the revenges gone wrong, and the dawning realization that life doesn't come with a soundtrack that tells you when to laugh and cry or an audience to applaud at the end. Cintra Wilson is a pyrotechnic wit - the natural heir to Douglas Coupland and the challenger to Dave Eggers. This novel will have readers howling with laughter and writhing with retrospective embarrassment. She is a staggering talent.

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4th Estate

Book information

ISBN: 9780007154586
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint: 4th Estate
Pub date:
DEWEY: 813.6
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 350
Weight: 446g
Height: 216mm
Width: 131mm
Spine width: 31mm