{"product_id":"we-play-ourselves","title":"We Play Ourselves","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''As funny as it''s intellectual, this page-turner about crashing and burning is spot-on about ambition, infatuation, theatre, film, ethics, teens, and everything else.'' Emma Donoghue, author of \u003ci\u003eRoom\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Witty...Earnest...Laugh-out-loud...Pitch-perfect'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Cass - a thirty something year old queer playwright - receives a prestigious award, it seems as though her career is finally taking off. That is until she finds herself at the centre of a searing public shaming. Fleeing New York, Cass moves to L.A. to start anew. Once there, she is pulled into the orbit of her charismatic neighbour, a filmmaker who''s making an ethically murky documentary inspired by a group of teenage girls and their underground fight club. But just as Cass begins to dream of a comeback, the past starts to catch up with her and she is forced once more to reckon with her ambition and the chaos it creates. \u003ci\u003eWe Play Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e is a darkly funny novel about the cost of making art, and the art of making enemies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Funny, sharp, modern - this is an excellent debut novel. Its bold, edgy, strange heroine has adventures and misadventures, screws up again and again, but somehow won my love. I couldn''t put this book down.'' Weike Wang, PEN\/Hemingway-award winning author of \u003ci\u003eChemistry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57313230455166,"sku":"NW9781838954338","price":10.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781838954338.jpg?v=1778509801","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/we-play-ourselves","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}