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Fiction Literary

Snapped

by (author) Pamela Klaffke

Publisher
MIRA Books
Initial publish date
Aug 2012
Category
Literary, Black Humor, Women Authors
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781459248373
    Publish Date
    Aug 2012
    List Price
    $1.99
  • 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 way—though there’s that, too. At the helm of must-read Snap magazine, veteran style guru Sara B. has had the job—and joy—for 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 blowups—personal, professional and private—that 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.

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