Fake Accounts

788 Pages·2022·5.259 MB·English

by  lauren OyLer

DATE: july 6, 2020 HC /PB: PB TRIM SIZE: 6 x 9 PAGE COUNT: 320 SPINE: .8 PRINTING: sterling pierce
TITLE: Fake accounts W/FLAPS: N
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Lexi
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“Fake Accounts is an absorbing and shameless examination of the way self-mythologies
2/2/21
are forged and performed in the public privacy of the internet. Fans of Lauren Oyler’s
ferocious criticism will love this twenty-first-century comedy of bad manners.” V4
—Catherine Lacey, author of Nobody Is Ever Missing and The Answers
F 7-6-20 CTPT
“Only if a novelist is traditional in the right ways—in her moral
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intelligence, in her complex eloquence, in her patient plotting—can she k READING COPY NC
properly register the real newness of our hurtling world of social media e
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and a mediatized society. Lauren Oyler has written a very funny and serious A February 2021 WMC
contemporary novel. You must pick it up if you read fiction and/or tweets.”
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—Benjamin Kunkel, author of Indecision and Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis c JK
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conspiracy theorist, and a popular one at that. Already fluent in internet fakery, irony, and
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outrage, she’s not exactly shocked by the revelation. But this is only the first in a series of
bizarre twists that expose a world whose truths are shaped by online lies. PRESS DATE
7/24/20
Suddenly left with no reason to stay in New York—or be anywhere in particular—
our unnamed narrator flees to Berlin, embarking on her own cycles of manipulation COLOR
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in the deceptive spaces of her daily life, from dating apps to expat meetups, open-plan
offices to bureaucratic waiting rooms. Narrated with seductive confidence and subversive L PRINT SPECS
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wit, Fake Accounts challenges the way current conversations about the self and community,
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delusions and gaslighting, and fiction and reality play out in the internet age. r
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LAUREN OYLER’s essays on books and culture have appeared in O
The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, London Review of y
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elker Books, The Guardian, New York magazine’s The Cut, The New Republic, er NOTES:
Vo Bookforum, and elsewhere. Born and raised in West Virginia, she now
© Pete divides her time between Brooklyn and Berlin.
@laurenoyler
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DATE: july 6, 2020 HC /PB: PB TRIM SIZE: 6 x 9 PAGE COUNT: 320 SPINE: .8 PRINTING: sterling pierce
TITLE: Fake accounts W/FLAPS: N
6 × 9 SPINE: 0.8 FLAPS: 0
Mech Designer:
Lexi
ON SALE
“Fake Accounts is an absorbing and shameless examination of the way self-mythologies
2/2/21
are forged and performed in the public privacy of the internet. Fans of Lauren Oyler’s
ferocious criticism will love this twenty-first-century comedy of bad manners.” V4
—Catherine Lacey, author of Nobody Is Ever Missing and The Answers
F 7-6-20 CTPT
“Only if a novelist is traditional in the right ways—in her moral
a ADVANCE
intelligence, in her complex eloquence, in her patient plotting—can she k READING COPY NC
properly register the real newness of our hurtling world of social media e
ON SALE

and a mediatized society. Lauren Oyler has written a very funny and serious A February 2021 WMC
contemporary novel. You must pick it up if you read fiction and/or tweets.”
c
—Benjamin Kunkel, author of Indecision and Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis c JK
o
On the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration, a young woman snoops through her u
OB
boyfriend’s phone and makes a startling discovery: he’s an anonymous internet n
t
conspiracy theorist, and a popular one at that. Already fluent in internet fakery, irony, and
s WMC
outrage, she’s not exactly shocked by the revelation. But this is only the first in a series of
bizarre twists that expose a world whose truths are shaped by online lies. PRESS DATE
7/24/20
Suddenly left with no reason to stay in New York—or be anywhere in particular—
our unnamed narrator flees to Berlin, embarking on her own cycles of manipulation COLOR
4/C
in the deceptive spaces of her daily life, from dating apps to expat meetups, open-plan
offices to bureaucratic waiting rooms. Narrated with seductive confidence and subversive L PRINT SPECS
a
wit, Fake Accounts challenges the way current conversations about the self and community,
u matte uv
delusions and gaslighting, and fiction and reality play out in the internet age. r
e
n

LAUREN OYLER’s essays on books and culture have appeared in O
The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, London Review of y
l
elker Books, The Guardian, New York magazine’s The Cut, The New Republic, er NOTES:
Vo Bookforum, and elsewhere. Born and raised in West Virginia, she now
© Pete divides her time between Brooklyn and Berlin.
@laurenoyler
ON SALE FEBRUARY 2, 2021 C
a
Fiction • Hardcover • $26.00 • 6 x 9 • 320 pages • 9781948226929 t
a
p
Publicity contact: Lena Moses-Schmitt, [email protected] u
lt
Catapult
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Fake Accounts
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F A K E
A C C O U N T S
A Novel
Lauren O yler
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this
novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Copyright © 2021 by Lauren Oyler
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ISBN: 978-1-948226-92-9
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