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Author Hamya, Jo, 1997- author.

Title The hypocrite / Jo Hamya.

Publication Info. New York : Pantheon Books, 2024.

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Edition First edition.
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Summary "From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation's Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a novel set between the London stage and Sicily, about a daughter who turns her novelist father's fall from grace into a play, and a father who increasingly fears his precocious daughter's voice. August 2020. Sophia, a young playwright, awaits her father's verdict on her new show. A famous author whose novels haven't aged as gracefully into the modern era as he might hope, he is completely unaware that the play centers around a vacation the two took years earlier to an island off Sicily, where he dictated to her a new book. The play has been met with rave reviews but Sophia's father has studiously avoided reading any of them. But when the house lights dim, he understands that his daughter has laid him bare, used the events of their summer to create an incisive, witty, skewering critique of the attitudes and sexual mores of men of his generation. Set through one staging of the play, The Hypocrite seamlessly and scorchingly shifts through time and perspective, illuminating an argument between a father and his daughter that, with impeccable nuance, examines the fraught inheritances each generation is left to contend with, and the struggle to nurture empathy in a world changing at lightning-speed"-- Provided by publisher.
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Genre/Form Novels.
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Hamya, Jo, 1997- Hypocrite. First edition New York : Pantheon Books, 2024 9780593701041 (DLC) 2023054366
ISBN 9780593701034 26.00
0593701038 26.00
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