Fake Like Me

Fake Like Me

<style type="text/css"> p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15.0px} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} </style> <b>A young painter tracks the mysterious life and death of her role model in this haunting work of literary suspense. A dark, glamorous, and addictive story of good intentions gone awry, from the critically acclaimed author of <i>I'll Eat When I'm Dead</i>.</b><br><br> <b>"Part thriller, part performance art and wholly revolutionary, FAKE LIKE ME confronts American art culture with female bravado." -- BookPage</b><br><br><div><br></div> <style type="text/css"> p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.3px 'Times New Roman'} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} </style> <i>Carey Logan was the art world's genius wild child.</i><br><br><br><b>FAKE</b><br><i><br></i> <style type="text/css"> p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.3px 'Times New Roman'} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} </style> <i>I was a no-name painter clawing my way up behind her.</i><br><br><b><br>LIKE</b><i><br><br></i> <style type="text/css"> p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.3px 'Times New Roman'} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} </style> <i>When Carey died, she left a space that couldn't be filled. Except, maybe, by</i><br><br><b><br>ME</b><br> <br> <style type="text/css"> p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.3px 'Times New Roman'} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.3px 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16.0px} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} </style> 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.<br><br> 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?<i> </i><div><i><br></i>"A <b>smart, satirical</b> take on fashion and media that <b>will have readers snorting with laughter.</b>"<br> -<i>The New York Post </i>on<i> I'll Eat When I'm Dead</i> </div>