American mermaid
Langbein, Julia (Art historian)2023
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Broke English teacher Penelope Schleeman is as surprised as anyone when her feminist novel "American Mermaid" becomes a best-seller. Lured by the promise of a big payday, she quits teaching and moves to L.A. to turn the novel into an action flick with the help of some studio hacks. But as she's pressured to change her main character from a fierce, androgynous eco-warrior to a teen sex object in a clamshell bra, strange things start to happen. Threats appear in the screenplay; siren calls lure Penelope's co-writers into danger. Is Penelope losing her mind, or has her mermaid come to life, enacting revenge for Hollywood's violations? "American Mermaid" follows a young woman braving the casual slights and cruel calculations of a ruthless industry town, where she discovers a beating heart in her own fiction, a mermaid who will fight to move between worlds without giving up her voice.
Main title:
American mermaid / Julia Langbein.
Author:
Langbein, Julia (Art historian), author
Imprint:
Wurundjeri Country ; Melbourne, VIC : Text Publishing, 2023.©2023.
Collation:
329 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781922790163 (paperback)9781922790254 (ebook)
Dewey class:
813.6F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
727520