Audition
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Audition
Audition
The mesmerising new novel from the author of Intimacies that asks who we are to the people we love.
Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She's an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He's attractive, troubling, young—young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him?
In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day—partner, parent, creator, muse—and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think they know us most intimately.
Taut and hypnotic, Audition is Katie Kitamura at her virtuosic best.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781911717324
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 17 April 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Fern Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 222.0mm
Weight: 400g
Pages: 208
About the Author
Katie Kitamura's most recent novel is Intimacies. One of the New York Times' 10 Best Books of 2021, it was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. It was also one of Barack Obama's favourite books of 2021. Her work has been translated into 21 languages and is being adapted for film and television. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, as well as fellowships from the Lannan, Santa Maddalena and Jan Michalski foundations. Kitamura has written for publications including the New York Times Book Review, the Guardian, Granta, frieze, and others. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.
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