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7196543True Failurehttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/true-failure-9781566897143/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6739249/image.jpg?v=638706184854430000266369MXNCoffee House PressInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>A twisting examination of life under late capitalism and the deceptions we inhabit to invent our own success stories.</strong></p><p>Ben just lost his job, but he wont fess up to his wife Tara. Instead, while he claims to be going to work, hes actually devoting his time to auditioning for the wildly popular reality TV show <em>Big Shot</em>, where hell be able to pitch his unique entrepreneurial idea. Meanwhile, Tara is lying to the parents of the children at her day care, turning in fabricated accounts of the kids daily activities. And Marcy, the producer of <em>Big Shot</em>, has told her coworkers shes taking some time to "unplug," the better to avoid explaining her real reasons for getting away from the office . . .</p><p>Lies are the air <em>True Failure</em>s characters breathe: lies to themselves and lies to others, lies that comfort and confound. In this extraordinary novel, worthy of a place alongside the work of Joy Williams and Charles Portis, Alex Higley pokes a hole in the greatest and most perfidious lie of our timethat we are all either successes or failures in lifewith warmth, wit, and wounding observation.</p>...6849004True Failure266369https://www.gandhi.com.mx/true-failure-9781566897143/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6739249/image.jpg?v=638706184854430000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20259781566897143_W3siaWQiOiI4MDkzNGRiMy04MjVhLTQ4YWUtYjBkYS02MzFhNGM4NWIzMjIiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjM2MCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjEwMSwic2VsbGluZ1ByaWNlIjoyNTksImluY2x1ZGVzVGF4Ijp0cnVlLCJwcmljZVR5cGUiOiJXaG9sZXNhbGUiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6Ik1YTiIsImZyb20iOiIyMDI0LTEyLTI0VDAzOjAwOjAwWiIsInJlZ2lvbiI6Ik1YIiwiaXNQcmVvcmRlciI6dHJ1ZX1d9781566897143_<p><strong>A twisting examination of life under late capitalism and the deceptions we inhabit to invent our own success stories.</strong></p><p>Ben just lost his job, but he wont fess up to his wife Tara. Instead, while he claims to be going to work, hes actually devoting his time to auditioning for the wildly popular reality TV show <em>Big Shot</em>, where hell be able to pitch his unique entrepreneurial idea. Meanwhile, Tara is lying to the parents of the children at her day care, turning in fabricated accounts of the kids daily activities. And Marcy, the producer of <em>Big Shot</em>, has told her coworkers shes taking some time to "unplug," the better to avoid explaining her real reasons for getting away from the office . . .</p><p>Lies are the air <em>True Failure</em>s characters breathe: lies to themselves and lies to others, lies that comfort and confound. In this extraordinary novel, worthy of a place alongside the work of Joy Williams and Charles Portis, Alex Higley pokes a hole in the greatest and most perfidious lie of our timethat we are all either successes or failures in lifewith warmth, wit, and wounding observation.</p>...9781566897143_Coffee House Presspreventa9781566897143_9781566897143Alex HigleyInglésMéxico2025-02-25T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/ingram50-epub-2d8b9bb1-8608-4b49-a542-d41b44c114b0.epub2025-02-25T00:00:00+00:00Coffee House Press