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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
February 2013
On Sale: February 17, 2013
352 pages
ISBN: 0374533326
EAN: 9780374533328
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Fiction
Michelle Orange uses the lens of pop culture to decode the
defining characteristics of our media-drenched
times
In This Is Running for Your Life,
Michelle Orange takes us from Beirut to Hawaii to her
grandmother’s retirement home in Canada in her quest to
understand how people behave in a world increasingly
mediated—for better and for worse—by images and
interactivity. Orange’s essays range from the critical to
the journalistic to the deeply personal; she seamlessly
combines stories from her own life with incisive analysis as
she explores everything from the intimacies we develop with
celebrities and movie characters to the troubled creation of
the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders.
With the insight of a young Joan Didion and the empathy of a
John Jeremiah Sullivan, Orange dives into popular culture
and the status quo and emerges with a persuasive and
provocative book about how we live now. Her singular voice
will resonate for years to come.
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