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A sparklingly strange odyssey through the kaleidoscope of America's new spirituality: the cults, practices, high priests, and prophets of our supposedly post-religion age.

A friendship to die for. A Ripley story for the Instagram age set in contemporary New York: a world at once sophisticated and sordid, irresistible and irresponsible, unforgettable yet unattainable. Louise is struggling to survive in New York; juggling a series of poorly paid jobs, renting a shabby flat, being catcalled by her creepy neighbour, she dreams of being a writer. And then one day she meets Lavinia. Lavinia who has everything - looks, money, clothes, friends, an amazing apartment...

As traditional powers of pre-modernity - church and throne - waned, a new myth took their place: that of the 'self-made man', whose unique powers of personality - or canny self-presentation - give him not just the opportunity, but the obligation, to remake reality in the image of what he wants it to be. From the Renaissance genius to the Regency dandy, the American prophets of capitalism to the aspirational übermensch of European fascism, Hollywood's Golden Age to today's Silicon Valley, Self-Made takes us on a dazzling tour of modern history's most prominent self-makers.

When shy, sensitive Laura Stearns arrives at St. Dunstan’s Academy in Maine, she dreams that life there will echo her favorite novel, All Before Them, the sole surviving piece of writing by Byronic “prep school prophet” (and St. Dunstan’s alum) Sebastian Webster, who died at nineteen, fighting in the Spanish Civil War. She soon finds the intensity she is looking for among the insular, Webster-worshipping members of the school’s chapel choir, which is presided over by the charismatic, neurotic, overachiever Virginia Strauss.

Rose has come a long way. Raised—and often neglected—by a wayward mother in New York City’s chaotic bohemia, she has finally built the life she’s always wanted: a good job at a self-help startup, a clean apartment, an engagement to a stable if self-satisfied tech CEO who shares her faith in human potential, hard work, and the sacrifice of childish dreams.

No puedes engañarlos para siempre. La red siempre te atrapa. Una novela que te explora sin temor la identidad en el mundo digital. Louise: 29 años, vive en un apartamento illegal en Brooklyn y sobrevive trabajando de camarera, redactora o dando clases de acceso a la universidad. Lavinia: 23 años, es una hermosa y rica residente del Upper East Side que ha abandonado Yale y se dedica al extravagante arte de ir de fiesta constante, y teniendo como lemas en su vida los poemas de Tennyson.

Louise ist Ende zwanzig und kann sich gerade so in New York durchschlagen. Eines Tages begegnet sie Lavinia, die wirklich alles hat, wovon Louise nur träumen kann. Ihr glamouröses Leben teilt sie gern - auf sämtlichen sozialen Netzwerken, aber auch mit Louise. Die beiden Frauen werden unzertrennlich. Louise wird auf Partys herumgereicht, lässt sich von Lavinia einkleiden, zieht bei ihr ein - sie verfällt Lavinia und ihrer Welt. Auch wenn sie eigentlich nicht die Mittel hat, um in ihr zu bestehen. Irgendwann beginnt sie, ihre Freundin zu bestehlen.