Don't I know you? /

What if some of the artists we feel as if we know, Meryl Streep, Neil Young, Bill Murray, turned up in the course of our daily lives? This is what happens to Rose McEwan, an ordinary woman who keeps having strange encounters with famous people. In this engrossing, original stories, we follow her lif...

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Main Author: Jackson, Marni (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Flatiron Books, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
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Summary:What if some of the artists we feel as if we know, Meryl Streep, Neil Young, Bill Murray, turned up in the course of our daily lives? This is what happens to Rose McEwan, an ordinary woman who keeps having strange encounters with famous people. In this engrossing, original stories, we follow her life from age 17, when she takes a summer writing course led by a young John Updike, through her first heartbreak (witnessed by Joni Mitchell) on the island of Crete, through her marriage, divorce and a canoe trip with Taylor Swift, Leonard Cohen and Karl Ove Knausgaard. (Yes, read on.) With wit and insight, Marni Jackson takes a world obsessed with celebrity and turns it on its head. In Don't I Know You?, she shows us how fame is just another form of fiction, and how, in the end, the daily dramas of an ordinary woman's life can be as captivating and poignant as any luminary tell-all.
Physical Description:248 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:9781250089793
1250089794