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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100063375761
ISBN-139780063375765
eBay Product ID (ePID)2334459787
Product Key Features
Book TitleClickbait : a Novel
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicFamily Life, Literary
Publication Year2024
GenreFiction
AuthorHolly Baxter
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight9 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2023-058716
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"In this razor-sharp, darkly humorous novel, Holly Baxter draws a no-holds-barred portrait of a woman whose actions have caused her life to collapse at her feet--and charts her misguided attempts to climb out of the rubble. I laughed. I cringed. I couldn't stop reading." -- Clémence Michallon, internationally bestselling author of The Quiet Tenant "'CLICKBAIT made me wince and made me howl. With a biting humor and a flair for the outrageous that is entirely her own, Holly Baxter has created an antiheroine for our times. A darkly hilarious debut that satirically captures our morally vapid media world with more accuracy than I ever thought possible. I loved it." -- Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Dewey Decimal813.6
SynopsisWith the dark comedy and sharp observations of Monica Heisey and Dolly Alderton, a whip-smart and laugh-out-loud funny debut novel about a disgraced, newly divorced journalist demoted to a "clickbait" job at a Manhattan tabloid. The first thing they tell you when you begin your training is never to become the news. Natasha has screwed up royally. Her mistake isn't just embarrassing, it's a breach of journalistic ethics that makes headlines and costs her a plum job reporting from London. Back in New York at thirty-five and single, divorced from a kind man she loved, she finds herself at the bottom of the media food chain--a junior reporter at a clickbait factory, rewriting sensational tabloid stories to make them just different enough to avoid lawsuits. As if her professional fall from grace weren't bad enough, she's taken the money she'd saved for a down payment for a home on a charming Brooklyn block with her husband, and rashly bought a boxy apartment overlooking the gray ocean in Rockaway Beach, Queens. Though seeing friends and family only serves to remind her of what she's lost, things begin to pick up when her ex-boyfriend Zach moves back to New York and accepts her offer of a spare bedroom. The arrangement is strictly platonic, of course--for him. But Natasha can't help but wonder whether he might be the solution to all her problems. As Natasha's obsession with Zach grows and her involvement in increasingly dystopian "churnalism" deepens, her worlds threaten to collide in the most cataclysmic, extremely public way.
LC Classification NumberPS3602.A978C55 2024
