Role Play by Drummond, Clara

Role Play

Role Play is a fresh satire narrated by a wealthy young woman in Rio on the verge...
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Author: Clara Drummond
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Role Play by Drummond, Clara

Role Play

€22,59

Role Play

€22,59
Author: Clara Drummond
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Role Play is a fresh satire narrated by a wealthy young woman in Rio on the verge of a class-consciousness awakening.

Vivian's gallery gig in Rio de Janeiro is more than a job. She's a curator, not just at work but in every aspect of her life. Her apartment has designer armchairs. Her wallet is Comme des Garçons. Everything is selected and arranged, even her friends, culled from Brazil's richest families, who play the supporting cast in Vivian's ongoing performance of self.

In Vivian's world, everything comes in excess, including her own caustic self-awareness. As she informs us, "I'm a misandrist and a misogynist," but she is fond of gay men, "the one type of human you can get along with as equals."

The gravity of real life breaks through Vivian's ongoing act when she's confronted with an unexpected and awful proximity to police violence. Can she pause long enough to recast herself in a new role, one that fits her highly staged world and can account for the dangerous and unpredictable?

Role Play examines the superabundances of Brazilian elites, their art and ethics, and their monied ambivalence in the face of social inequality, machismo, and violence. As sharp and sparkling as broken champagne flutes, Clara Drummond's prose is seductively frank and unflinching in its depiction of wealth's warping effects. Her third novel and her English-language debut, Role Play is a bold and hilarious book that places everything that affirms and informs the performance of self under a harsh spotlight.

Author: Clara Drummond
Publisher: Fsg Originals
Published: 06/04/2024
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780374611286

About the Author

Clara Drummond is a Brazilian writer and journalist based in Lisbon, Portugal. Her work has appeared in Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, and Marie Claire. Role Play is her third novel.

Daniel Hahn
is a writer, an editor, and a translator with about a hundred books to his name. Recent books include Catching Fire: A Translation Diary and translations of novels from Angola, Venezuela, and Guatemala. He is currently writing a book about Shakespeare and translation, and coediting a collection of Brazilian short stories.


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