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Polite Fiction : Singapore, Romance Fiction.
Title:
Polite Fiction : Singapore, Romance Fiction.
Author:
Cheong, Colin.
ISBN:
9789814398787
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (292 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright -- Title -- Prologue: Little Red Riding Hood -- The Emperor's New Clothes -- Snow White -- The Little Mermaid -- Sleeping Beauty -- The Three Little Pigs -- The Three Bears -- The Clever Tailor -- The Frog Prince -- The Prince and the Pauper -- Puss in Boots -- The Tin Solider -- The Little Match Girl -- Cinderella -- The Ugly Duckling -- Epilogue: Rip Van Winkle.
Abstract:
What's a girl to do? Smart, athletic and obscenely wealthy, Yuki Moh is the embodiment of girl power and looks like she's got it all. She also has an insanely possessive and protective father who wants to keep her in the family money-laundering business. Luckily for Yuki, she's got friends who owe her favours. But with her lover's mother dying from cancer and her best friend gang-raped, she's got more on her mind than freedom. Polite Fiction is about the rude reality behind the stories we tell about ourselves. Colin Cheong's latest work weaves a central story through the lives and issues of a cast of characters hiding behind their own polite fictions. Each chapter sends sanitized fairy tales back to the realm of shadows where they lie in wait - to remind us of just how much we lie.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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