The Simp

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Beschreibung

<p><b>PICKED FOR ROXANE GAY'S AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB</b></p><p><b>'If you're already missing HACKS, this will fill the void'</b><br><b><i>Debutiful, </i>'The Most Anticipated Debut Books of 2026'</b></p><p><b><i>'</i>Funny, poignant, and positively delightful' </b><br><b>GRAHAM MOORE, author of <i>The Holdout</i></b><br><b><i><br>'</i>A searing, hilarious farce'</b><br><b>NIKESH SHUKLA, author of <i>The Boxer</i></b></p><p>Raj Ladlani is one of thousands in LA: an unemployable actor. He has reasons to believe he is spectacularly talented (his beloved acting coach Anthony says so), a legend in every way but for the success.</p><p>His anonymous life working at Yogurtland, obsessively reading <i>Vanity Fair</i>, and fantasizing about stardom, comes to an end when he answers a job ad detailing a relentless, laughable parade of menial responsibilities for a 'Hollywood Family'. So begins the astonishing decline and fall of Raj Ladlani.<br><br> <i>The Simp</i> tells the story of Raj's momentous employment and the destruction that follows in the wake of his time with the with the H Family: Jim, a macho director determined to prove himself as an <i>artist</i>; and Anna, his much younger wife who has ambitions of her own.</p><p>And when the job reveals itself to be an absurdist walk through affluent domestic chaos and misguided engagements with identity politics, Raj might be about to lose it - on a very public stage.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781399755696

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

231 x 152 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Hodder And Stoughton Ltd.