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The Savage Girl

Ursula Van Urden having moved to Middle City to care for her sister, a suicidal and schizophrenic fashion model, takes a job with a trendspotting firm where she is inspired by a homeless girl to create an advertising campaign for diet water.

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  • "Savage girl"@it
  • "Savage girl"@pl

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  • "Twins, Ursula and Ivy are both beautiful and ambitious. Ursula becomes a trendspotter in the consumer business, while Ivy becomes a model. But when Ivy can no longer make a living from her body she has a nervous breakdown and is committed to an asylum. There she becomes the "savage girl.""
  • "Ursula Van Urden having moved to Middle City to care for her sister, a suicidal and schizophrenic fashion model, takes a job with a trendspotting firm where she is inspired by a homeless girl to create an advertising campaign for diet water."@en
  • "In the wake of her sister Ivy's widely publicized suicide attempt, Ursula Van Urden arrives in the metropolis of Middle City with hopes of starting her own life anew. In an attempt to understand the events leading up to her sister's breakdown, Ursula meets Ivy's mysterious boyfriend, Chas Lacouture, and joins his trendspotting firm, Tomorrow, Ltd. Armed with only a sketch pad and the mandate to "find the future," she begins an odyssey into the strangely intoxicating world of trendspotting where one lesson prevails: At the heart of every product lies a paradox, and when cultivated successfully, it yields untold riches. As Ivy's delusions grow stronger and more apocalyptic, Ursula's observations of a filthy, rodent-eating homeless girl -- an urban savage -- lead to an elaborate advertising scheme gone awry that has unexpected consequences."@en
  • "Ursula se rend à Middle City pour comprendre la tentative de suicide de sa soeur Ivy, un ancien mannequin. Elle rencontre Chas l'ex-petit ami d'Ivy et se fait embaucher dans sa société comme trendspotter pour trouver les tendances du futur. Elle rencontre une SDF, une sauvage urbaine qui la fascine et qu'elle voit comme un double en négatif de sa soeur, deux icônes extrêmes de la société..."
  • "In a novel about the effects of consumerism on society, a young woman travels to Middle City to help her fashion model sister recover from a suicide attempt."@en
  • "Adult/High School-A dark novel of ideas that might be called "wickedly funny" if it didn't contain quite so much truth. The Savage Girl predicts a frighteningly empty future on the rise-one that is, literally, tomorrow, and is not unlike today. Ruled by advertising and in the hands of professional trend-spotters like protagonist Ursula, it is "The Dark Age: Lite," in which people flock to buy diet water and wear leather made to look like vinyl "fake leather." Ursula comes to MidCity to visit her recently institutionalized sister Ivy, a 21-year-old schizophrenic model who attempted suicide in public. She gets a job under Ivy's much-older boyfriend, Chas Lacouture, the head of a powerful trend-spotting firm, and spends her days in-line skating around town, taking notes on street fashion, and trying to "see the future." Transfixed by a homeless "savage girl" she spots wearing skins and hunting her own food, idealist Ursula envisions this look sparking a return to nature and purity and shows her sketches to Chas-only to watch him haul Ivy out of the hospital to become the spokesmodel for the savage look. Never mind that she speaks paranoid gibberish: "Schizophrenia is the Future!" Soon enough, to Ursula's horror, his prediction seems right on the money. So, incidentally, does Shakar's. One emerges from the novel feeling dragged through the murkiest depths of what it means to be human. The author's scalding observations will ring true with teens hip to the often-outrageous ways in which advertising molds us-and will provide the rudest, smartest awakening for those who are not."@en

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  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Satire"
  • "Satire"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "Look sauvage"
  • "The Savage Girl"@en
  • "Der letzte Schrei : Roman"
  • "The savage girl : a novel"@en
  • "The savage girl : a novel"
  • "The savage girl a novel"@en
  • "La selvaggia : romanzo"
  • "La selvaggia : romanzo"@it
  • "Look sauvage; trad. de l'américain par Daniel Lemoine"
  • "The savage girl"
  • "The savage girl"@en
  • "Dzikuska"
  • "Dzikuska"@pl

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