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Jillian

Halle Butler

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English
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
14 July 2020
Twenty-four-year-old Megan may have her whole life ahead of her, but it already feels like a dead end, thanks to her dreadful job as a gastroenterologist's receptionist and her heart-clogging resentment of the success and happiness of everyone around her. But no one stokes Megan's bitterness quite like her coworker, Jillian, a grotesquely optimistic, thirty-five-year-old single mother whose chirpy positivity obscures her mounting struggles.

Megan and Jillian's lives become increasingly precarious as their faulty coping mechanisms--denial, self-help books, alcohol, religion, prescription painkillers, obsessive criticism, alienated boyfriends, and, in Jillian's case, the misguided purchase of a dog--send them spiraling toward their downfalls. Wickedly authentic and brutally funny, JILLIAN is a subversive portrait of two women trapped in cycles of self-delusion and self-destruction, each more like the other than they would care to admit.

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Imprint:   Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Unabridged edition
Dimensions:   Height: 196mm,  Width: 126mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   180g
ISBN:   9781474617574
ISBN 10:   1474617573
Pages:   208
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Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

"Halle Butler is a writer living in New York City. Her first novel, Jillian, was called the ""feel-bad book of the year"" by the Chicago Tribune. Her second novel, The New Me, was named a Best Book of the Decade by Vox and a Best Book of the Year by Vanity Fair, Vulture, Chicago Tribune, Mashable, Bustle, and NPR, and the New Yorker called it a ""definitive work of millennial literature."" She was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree."

Reviews for Jillian

Outrageous and amusing ... reads like rubbernecking or a junk-food binge, compelling a horrified fascination and bleak laughter - Kirkus Wretchedly riveting - New Yorker Butler is an essential contemporary voice - Literary Hub A master of writing about work and its discontents - The Millions The funniest book I've read in a long time, but also one of the most important ones - The Rumpus The feel-bad book of the year ... sublimely awkward and hilarious - Chicago Tribune Few authors capture the acidic angst of downtrodden millennials like Butler - The Huffington Post Never before have a pair of characters made me so sick with hatred and empathy at once. Butler is writing exactly what I want to read.


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