Alexandra Kleeman. (2021). Something New Under the Sun: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group.

Alexandra Kleeman. 2021. Something New Under the Sun: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group.

Alexandra Kleeman, Something New Under the Sun: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2021.

Alexandra Kleeman. Something New Under the Sun: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2021.

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   • bioText: Alexandra Kleeman is the author of Intimations, a short story collection, and the novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, which was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Conjunctions, and Guernica, among other publications, and her other writing has appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Tin House, n+1, and The Guardian. Her work has received fellowships and support from Bread Loaf, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. She is the winner of the Berlin Prize and the Bard Fiction Prize, and was a Rome Prize Literature Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. She lives in Staten Island and teaches at the New School.
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NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with ambition, corruption, and environmental collapse in “a darkly satirical reflection of ecological reality” (Time)

LONGLISTED FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Vulture, Thrillist, Literary Hub

“An urgent novel about our very near future, and a deeply addictive pleasure.”—Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies
Novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Los Angeles to oversee the film adaptation of one of his books and try to impress his wife and daughter back home with this last-ditch attempt at professional success. But California is not as he imagined. Drought, wildfire, and corporate corruption are everywhere, and the company behind a mysterious new brand of synthetic water seems to be at the root of it all. Patrick finds an unlikely partner in Cassidy Carter—the cynical starlet of his film—and the two investigate the sun-scorched city, where they discover the darker side of all that glitters in Hollywood.
Something New Under the Sun is an unmissable novel for our present moment—a bold exploration of environmental catastrophe in the age of alternative facts, and “a ghost story not of the past but of the near future” (The New York Times).

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     East Coast novelist Patrick Hamlin heads to Hollywood to oversee the production of a film based on one of his works, hoping to keep the production on track while resurrecting a flagging career. Instead, he witnesses drought, wildfire, and corporate corruption. From the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize.

     Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     June 7, 2021
     Kleeman’s ranging and ambitious latest (after Intimations) imagines a climate-ravaged near-future California. Novelist Patrick Hamlin has just arrived in Los Angeles to assist with the adaptation of his melancholy novel Elsinore Lane, based on his father’s death. Hollywood calculations, though, quickly distort the story beyond recognition. Worse, the producers have cast in the leading role unpredictable former child star Cassidy Carter, whose career is on the downturn. Even worse yet, Patrick is made a production assistant and tasked with chauffeuring the unpredictable Cassidy to and from set. Meanwhile, Patrick’s wife, Alison, who previously suffered a breakdown, takes her daughter to an Upstate New York eco-retreat; California has recently converted to using WAT-R, a synthetic water product; and green vans make rounds to pick up sufferers of a mysterious new dementia. Cassidy and Patrick are then drawn in by conspiracy theories involving a supposed link between WAT-R and Cassidy’s old show, Kassi Keene: Kid Detective, and Patrick streams episodes looking for clues. While a few plot twists are telegraphed, the action is propulsive and entertaining even as the horrors of climate change smolder around every corner. Readers will be captivated by this intelligent, rip-roaring story. Agent: Claudia Ballard, William Morris Endeavor.

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     June 15, 2021
     An East Coast writer oversees the adaptation of his novel to film in a hellish version of Los Angeles. Patrick Hamlin arrives in Hollywood to assume a vague role on the set of the movie version of his latest novel. But everything about the process is befuddling--the movie script barely resembles his story, and his role is relegated to listening to the semiphilosophical ramblings of the production assistants and transporting Cassidy Carter, the tempestuous former child actor-turned-B-lister that is starring in the film. Patrick is increasingly alarmed by the things he witnesses: Wildfires flare constantly; everyone drinks a luxe synthetic product called WAT-R that is "the same as water, just a little bit more so." And there is a mysterious "dementia" that is afflicting people seemingly at random, regardless of age. As the surrealism of the film-set experiences blend with the nightmarishness of LA, Patrick is also coming unglued by developments at home: His emotionally fragile wife and their 9-year-old daughter are staying at an upstate New York commune, where they participate in group mourning rituals as a kind of ecological grief work. It isn't long before everything in Patrick's life feels like it's spiraling toward disaster. Kleeman's novel is idea-driven, a critique of the artifice of consumerism and Hollywood culture in which that artifice is heightened on each page, from characters talking in polished soliloquies to the ominous ubiquity of WAT-R bottles in everyone's hands. Everything in this world is deliberately just a little bit off, like the slight telltale warp of a Photoshopped selfie. While some readers might find the novel overly conceptual, it's undeniably fun to watch Kleeman juggle genre, from mystery to domestic drama, from cli-fi to ghost story. An admirably eclectic take on environmental dystopia.

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     July 1, 2021
     In an unspecified near future, California's water crisis has deteriorated to the point where tap water is abolished in favor of packaged WAT-R, a synthetic, H20-like substance laden with tempting flavors and hyperbolic claims of purity. Bootlegged bottles of "old fashioned" water serve as payment for teen superstar Cassidy Carter's leading role in the film adaptation of a novel whose author, Patrick Hamlin, is on set, where he acts as Cassidy's personal gofer. When the production fizzles, Patrick and Cassidy team up to investigate underlying corruption tied to the movie's producers, ultimately uncovering a mysterious, dementia-like disease linked to WAT-R that is ravishing the population of Los Angeles. Beginning with a hipster vibe that wickedly satirizes the frippery of Hollywood's self-absorption, Kleeman's (Intimations, 2016) dystopian tale heads inexorably into a dark, fatalistic exploration of the moral consequences of environmental destruction. With California's ubiquitous wildfires raging in the background, Kleeman handles this existential crisis with verve and originality, displaying imagery that is stark and pulsating with a vibrancy fueled by a complexly rich imagination.

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     The bulk of this novel from Bard Fiction winner Kleeman (You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine) takes place on a movie set in the greater Los Angeles area during a near-future period of drought and wildfire. East Coast novelist Patrick's book is being made into a film, and as part of the deal he has been offered a job on the set; he becomes a gofer for former child star Cassidy. With the L.A. area having run out of water, an artificial substitute called WAT-R has taken its place--a huge issue because it turns out that WAT-R causes an acute form of early onset dementia. Cassidy drinks only real water, but unfortunately Patrick has consumed a lot of WAT-R and is progressively losing his mind. They band together and learn that the movie producers are running a scam to make money by warehousing dementia victims. At the same time, Patrick desperately misses his wife and daughter, who live on a commune in upstate New York, and Cassidy tries to save Patrick and reunite him with his family. The outcome remains far from certain. VERDICT This chilling novel explores how artificial solutions can lead to even greater problems, with potentially dire consequences for humanity. Highly recommended.--Henry Bankhead, San Rafael P.L., CA

     Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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LONGLISTED FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Vulture, Thrillist, Literary Hub

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Novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Los Angeles to oversee the film adaptation of one of his books and try to impress his wife and daughter back home with this last-ditch attempt at professional success. But California is not as he imagined. Drought, wildfire, and corporate corruption are everywhere, and the company behind a mysterious new...

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