Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Editorial VIKING
Mainland Spain
- Publisher VIKING
- ISBN13 9780525510567
- ISBN10 0525510567
- Type Book
- Collection INGLES #
- Published 2020
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
Sections
Gender Studies/feminismTrick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Editorial VIKING
Mainland Spain
Book Details
This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine's journey from brave to blank to bitter; the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until we die. Gleaming with Tolentino's sense of humor and capacity to elucidate the impossibly complex in an instant, and marked by her desire to treat the reader with profound honesty, Trick Mirror is an instant classic of the worst decade yet.