Not Safe For Work by Isabel Kaplan - ISBN: 9781405950398
Paperback
Hollywood’s dark secrets: success, silence, and the price of ambition.

Not Safe For Work

A Novel

$22.99

  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    10 October 2023

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Summary

For fans of The Morning Show and My Dark Vanessa, a compulsively readable debut novel about a young woman trying to succeed in Hollywood without selling her soul.

You are young, ambitious, college-educated, and a feminist. Your new job is in television. To climb the ranks, you do whatever it takes:

  • Pull all-nighters
  • Lean on your powerful mother’s contacts
  • Stay in shape at cult-like fitness classes
  • Secretly wear your boss’s Fit…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781405950398
ISBN-10:1405950390
Author:Isabel Kaplan
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:10 October 2023
Weight:220g
Dimensions:24mm x 126mm x 196mm
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Not Safe For Work by Isabel Kaplan - ISBN: 9781405950398
126 × 196 mm
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C-Format
A4
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Critics Review

Glittering. A funny, spiky compulsive story about toxic workplaces, lean-in culture and #MeToo * Evening Standard *
A frank account of leaning in and its inherent filthiness. Kaplan captures the psychological, and at times literal, gymnastics required of striving women – Raven Leilani, New York Times bestselling author of Luster
Readers who were obsessed with My Dark Vanessa, this one is for you. A blistering look at the hidden side of Hollywood * Glamour, ‘BEST NEW BOOKS’ *
Wholly engrossing and shrewdly observational … that rare kind of read that made me giggle just as much as it left me gutted – Zakiya Dalila Harris, New York Times bestselling author of The Other Black Girl
Sharp, funny … The writing is fresh and stylish and the conversational tone helps the thought-provoking narrative zip along. I loved it * Daily Mail *
Frank, funny and unputdownable … behind the glitter and the justice, everyone is tarnished and compromised - including even our narrator. Kaplan, with her sharp and nuanced eye, sees it all, and tells it brilliantly – Claire Messud, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman Upstairs
Deliciously sharp, ridiculously funny, and surprisingly heartfelt … I cannot wait to discuss it with everyone I know – Coco Mellors, author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Brilliantly deadpan and spiky in all the right ways. An accurate, darkly funny but also brutal portrayal of everyday workplace and world power dynamics. I couldn’t put it down – Emily Itami, Costa-shortlisted author of Fault Lines
With her sun-bleached Hollywood setting, Kaplan transports us to another world - one which is achingly familiar. A novel which makes us examine our own complicity, while also weaving in threads of tenderness, drive and office-based humour which at times feels delightfully absurd … I inhaled this book - and came up for air still reeling – Katie Hale, author of My Name is Monster
Ambition bites back in Isabel Kaplan’s Not Safe For Work, a novel that hits close to a few recent news events … So visceral is the narrator’s voice that every time I opened the book felt like sliding into uncomfortable heels. Brave * New York Times *

About The Author

Isabel Kaplan

Isabel Kaplan graduated from Harvard and holds an MFA in creative writing from NYU. She was born and raised in Los Angeles.

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