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Who you think I am / Camille Laurens ; translated from the French by Adriana Hunter.

"This is the story of Claire Millecam, a forty-eight-year-old teacher and divorcee who creates a fake social media profile to try to keep tabs on Jo, her occasional, elusive, and inconstant lover. Under the false identity of Claire Antunes, a young and beautiful twenty-four-year-old, she starts a correspondence with Chris--pseudonym KissChris--which soon turns into an Internet love affair. Who You Think I Am is a true novel of our times that brilliantly exposes the disconnect between desire and fantasy. Social media allows us to put ourselves on display, to indulge in secrets, but above all to lie, to recreate a life, to become our own fiction--a mixture of sentimental naivety manipulative perversity which echoes the libertine novels of the eighteenth century."--

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Adult fiction   City Branch . . Available .  
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ISBN 9781590518328
1590518322
Author Laurens, Camille author.
Title Who you think I am / Camille Laurens ; translated from the French by Adriana Hunter.
Published New York Other Press, 2017.
Physical description 176 pages ; 21 cm.
General note "Originally published in France as Celle que vous croyez by Éditions Gallimard, Paris, in 2016"--Title page verso.
Note Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "This is the story of Claire Millecam, a forty-eight-year-old teacher and divorcee who creates a fake social media profile to try to keep tabs on Jo, her occasional, elusive, and inconstant lover. Under the false identity of Claire Antunes, a young and beautiful twenty-four-year-old, she starts a correspondence with Chris--pseudonym KissChris--which soon turns into an Internet love affair. Who You Think I Am is a true novel of our times that brilliantly exposes the disconnect between desire and fantasy. Social media allows us to put ourselves on display, to indulge in secrets, but above all to lie, to recreate a life, to become our own fiction--a mixture of sentimental naivety manipulative perversity which echoes the libertine novels of the eighteenth century."--
Subject Middle-aged women -- Fiction
Self-presentation -- Fiction
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
Virtual reality -- Fiction
Psychological fiction
Additional author Hunter, Adriana translator.
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