Snapped
- Publisher
- MIRA Books
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2012
- Category
- Literary, Black Humor, Women Authors
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459248373
- Publish Date
- Aug 2012
- List Price
- $1.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780778327462
- Publish Date
- Dec 2009
- List Price
- $16.95
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Description
Sara B. is losing her cool
Not just in the momentary-meltdown kind of waythough there’s that, too. At the helm of must-read Snap magazine, veteran style guru Sara B. has had the joband joyfor the past fifteen years of eviscerating the city’s fashion victims in her legendary DOs and DON’Ts photo spread.
But now on the unhip edge of forty, with ambitious hipster kids reinventing the style world, Sara’s being spit out like an old Polaroid picture: blurry, undeveloped and obsolete.
Fueled by alcohol, nicotine and self-loathing, Sara launches into a cringeworthy but often comic series of blowupspersonal, professional and privatethat culminate in an epiphany. That she, the arbiter of taste, has made her living by cutting people down and somehow she’s got to make amends.
About the author
Pamela Klaffke is a newspaper and magazine journalist turned novelist and photographer. She is the author of the the non-fiction book Spree: A Cultural History of Shopping and the novels Snapped and Every Little Thing. She lives in Calgary, Canada with her partner and her daughter.