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From critically acclaimed author Barbara Bourland, comes an "impressively intelligent thriller," nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, about a young painter who tracks the mysterious life and death of her role model, uncovering strange secrets that lead to the truth of her demise (Refinery29). After a fire rips through her loft, destroying the seven billboard-size paintings meant for her first major exhibition, a young painter is left with an impossible task: recreate the lost artworks in just three months without getting caught -- or ruin her fledgling career. Homeless and desperate, she begs her way into Pine City, an exclusive retreat in upstate New York notorious for three things: outrageous revelries, glamorous artists, and the sparkling black lake where brilliant prodigy Carey Logan drowned herself. Taking up residence in Carey's former studio, the painter works with obsessive, delirious focus. But when she begins to uncover strange secrets at Pine City and falls hard for Carey's mysterious boyfriend, a single thought shadows her every move: What really happened to Carey Logan?
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Summary
Summary
A Crime Reads Pick of the Best Noir Fiction of the Year
Finalist for the 2020 Edgar Award for Best Novel
A Cosmopolitan Pick of the Month
A Fortune Magazine Pick of Summer Travel Books
A Toronto Star Book of Note for Summer
A Millions.com Pick of Must-Read Novels about Artists
A Refinery29 Pick
A HelloGiggles Pick of the Month
A Publishers Weekly Pick of Best Books of the Summer
After a fire rips through her loft, destroying the seven billboard-size paintings meant for her first major exhibition, a young painter is left with an impossible task: recreate the lost artworks in just three months without getting caught -- or ruin her fledgling career. Homeless and desperate, she begs her way into Pine City, an exclusive retreat in upstate New York notorious for three things: outrageous revelries, glamorous artists, and the sparkling black lake where brilliant prodigy Carey Logan drowned herself.
Taking up residence in Carey's former studio, the painter works with obsessive, delirious focus. But when she begins to uncover strange secrets at Pine City and falls hard for Carey's mysterious boyfriend, a single thought shadows her every move: What really happened to Carey Logan?
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
"[A] page-turning story about art imitating life.” —Palm Beach Post
“A piercing psychological thriller that skewers the self-absorbed, money-driven bubble that contemporary art and criticism can sometimes turn into, Barbara Bourland’s Fake Like Me is a rare masterpiece…that deserves a place among the genre’s all-time best.” —The Millions
“Menacing, swirling, hypnotic…A haunting, dizzying meditation on identity and the blurred lines between life and art.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Bourland expertly shines a light on the nature of female ambition and desire and the often dark heart of inspiration. Readers fascinated with the blood, sweat, and tears of creating art will be especially rewarded.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best NovelWinner of Baltimore Magazine's 2019 Best Book of BaltimoreA HelloGiggles Best Book of June 2019 —
A Refinery29 Best Book of June 2019 —
A Cosmopolitan June 2019 Must-Have —
A Fortune Summer 2019 Travel Pick —
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of Summer 2019 —
A CrimeReads Best Crime Books of the Year (So Far)A Toronto Star Hot Summer Thriller PickA Bookish Best Cover of 2019 —
Bourland expertly shines a light on the nature of female ambition and desire and the often dark heart of inspiration. Readers fascinated with the blood, sweat, and tears of creating art will be especially rewarded. —Publishers Weekly, (Starred Review)
Menacing, swirling, hypnotic ... A haunting, dizzying meditation on identity and the blurred lines between life and art. —Kirkus, (Starred Review)
Bourland has an uncanny knack for spatial description and relates artwork and every last thing in Pine City--"half Dirty Dancing, half Twin Peaks —with pristinely observed color and feeling. She also nails the creep factor, and her narrator's high tolerance for it, with foreboding signs that the no-name painter isn't totally welcome there, and that there's more to Carey's story. The deck stacked against her, the narrator tells the glitteringly compelling tale of her fevered summer and wisely reveals meaningful intersections of class, gender, and making art.
The creative process confronts reality in this compelling literary thriller centering on art, identity, and deception, as told in Bourland's (I'll Eat When I'm Dead) sharp prose. A must for those with an artistic bent, a sheer reading pleasure for all. —Library Journal (Starred Review)
Fake Like Me is an impressively intelligent thriller set in the art world...Expect insightful paragraphs about the creative process sprinkled among the propulsive mystery. —Refinery29
[A] page-turning story about art imitating life. —The Palm Beach Post
The process creators go through for the sake of their art ranges from obsessive to self-destructive, and that ideology is escalated with Bourland's cutthroat prose... The unrelenting threat hovers through the plot and rigidly keeps the reader's head just above water until the end approaches. —Fangoria Magazine
Bourland has an astonishing ability to write viscerally about art, culture, class, and landscape, for a work that's bound to be one of the summer's biggest crime/literary crossovers. —Literary Hub
Bourland's terrific new novel engages with the quandary of what makes a work of art authentic. —Crime Reads
Gripping, witty, and eye-opening. —Liv Constantine, author of The Last Mrs. Parrish
In Bourland's decadent twist on the classic campus novel, a group of struggling artists succeed beyond their wildest dreams, but at what cost? Gloriously mordant and glittering. —Courtney Maum, author of Touch
[A] razor-sharp exploration of the tension between the desire to make art and the desire to make money. FAKE LIKE ME is satirical, brilliantly realized, and has a twist you simply won't see coming... —Louise O'Neill, author of Only Ever Yours
A ridiculously propulsive 'du Maurier-esque' literary thriller. Could. Not. Put. It. Down. —Lisa Gabriele, author of The Winters
Drop everything to follow Bourland's brilliant narrator to Pine City, the upstate artist colony with its crumbling camp buildings and secret histories. You will not see the art world--or a woman's place in it--the same way again. —Maria Hummel, Author of Still Lives
Bourland raises a magnifying glass to the contemporary art world in this compelling satire...It's a penetrating, insightful discourse into what it means to be a practicing artist navigating the cut-throat art world...Your jaw will drop more than a few times throughout Bourland's story, which is painted with rich imagery, exquisite details, and sensual delight. —Baltimore Magazine
Glittering with wit and mystery, Fake Like Me is more than an immensely readable portrait of an artist-it shatters expectations with pointed satire and structural daring. —Hyperallergic
Barbara Bourland's sophomore release is brilliant, fast-moving mystery-satire of the contemporary art world. Fake Like Me checks all the boxes: smart, fun, sexy, witty, with unforgettable characters, all while providing social commentary on navigating the arts---how difficult it is to walk the line between being authentic and being a commodity. —Baltimore Magazine
[A] compelling read that, like the best art, feels like more than the sum of its parts. —Texas Monthly
Author
Author Bio: Barbara Bourland
Barbara Bourland, novelist, was a web producer for O, The Oprah Magazine and OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network.
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| Available Formats : | Digital Download, CD |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Runtime: | 10.79 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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