{"product_id":"television-a-novel-isbn-9780063443327","title":"Television: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A glamorous, intriguing novel\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) about a jaded movie star and the two differently conflicted women in his orbit.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSome people you meet them and you imagine this movie together. The two of you make a kind of movie and then it’s over. Other people, what you imagine isn’t a movie, because it keeps going. It’s television . . . If you can’t see how romantic television is, you’re blind.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn aging, A-list movie star lotteries off the entirety of his mega-million blockbuster salary to a member of the general viewing public before taking up with a much younger model. His non-famous best friend (and often lover) looks on impassively, while recollecting their twenty-odd years of unlikely connection. And an aspiring filmmaker, unknown to them both, labors over a script about best friends and lovers while longing for the financial freedom to make great art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in their alternating, intricately linked perspectives, \u003ci\u003eTelevision\u003c\/i\u003e is a funny, philosophically astute novel about phenomenal luck, whether windfall or chance encounter. Like Joan Didion’s classic \u003ci\u003ePlay It as It Lays\u003c\/i\u003e, but speaking to a since irrevocably changed Hollywood, it portrays a culture in crisis and the disparities in wealth, beauty, talent, gender, and youth at the heart of contemporary American life. In this glittering but strange new world, lit up by social media and streaming services—what, if not love, can be counted in your favor?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith plays in chronology, bright, nimble dialogue, and a profoundly modern style, Lauren Rothery’s debut novel is an arresting feat of literary impressionism, and marks the arrival of a significant new talent to the landscape of American fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eTelevision\u003c\/i\u003e] has the rhythm of clever conversation, and casual erudition... Rothery’s book is funny, thinky and with a style all her own.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Set in Los Angeles, this ruminative novel alternates in perspective between a blockbuster actor, his best friend and sometime lover, and an aspiring screenwriter...it considers questions of artistic and philanthropic legacy.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, Best Books of 2025\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A] stylish debut novel.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times, \"Ten Books to Read in December\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rothery's debut novel, \u003ci\u003eTelevision\u003c\/i\u003e, hits the mark with unerring accuracy, understanding, and—dare we say it—affection... Rothery has a gimlet ear for dialogue and the myriad ways unhappy people, no matter the generation, find to torture one another.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"At once classic and of the moment, it skips across storylines like a flat stone over a deep lake...[Lauren Rothery is] a new novelist hitting a stride usually saved for later, with confidence that feels from another, less nervous era.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review, Favorite Books of 2025\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Her prose rises off the page with champagne-bubble effervescence.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this accomplished and beautifully written debut novel, Lauren Rothery offers a sharp-edged homage to Hollywood past and present and a knowing look at the tension between fame and art...Stylish, smart, and glamorous, \u003ci\u003eTelevision\u003c\/i\u003e is catnip for lovers of literary fiction.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Astounding…cool as a cucumber and glittering with startling observations about love, technology, work, media and film. Plus: it’s funny.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMolly Young\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eTelevision\u003c\/em\u003e is a rare thing: a work of formal ingenuity that dismantles the narrative constraints of celebrity, memory, and media. Even as its characters grapple with artifice—in love, in the performances of self—the novel is plangent. It is an actor’s monologue and a biographer’s aside, a love letter and a critique of attention. In other words, this is a novel as strange, seductive, and inescapable as film itself.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eZain Khalid, author of Brother Alive\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eTelevision\u003c\/em\u003e is as stylish as it is substantial. A timely and timeless novel for readers of Joan Didion and Gary Indiana. An excellent first book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephanie Wambugu, author of Lonely Crowds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eTelevision\u003c\/em\u003e sent me on paths I didn’t expect, turning timeless topics such as love, lust, and success into characters, at once elusive and incessant, as they are in life. With quick, surefooted language sometimes giving way to epiphanic fragments that nearly break the fourth wall, we're on high alert that nothing is so easily explained by some idea of reality, especially when actors are involved.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNatasha Stagg, author of Grand Rapids\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48252278702309,"sku":"NP9780063443327","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063443327.jpg?v=1768315374","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/television-a-novel-isbn-9780063443327","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}