Fake Like Me, Barbara Bourland
Fake Like Me, Barbara Bourland
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Fake Like Me

Author: Barbara Bourland

Narrator: Xe Sands

Unabridged: 10 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/18/2019

Synopsis

From critically acclaimed author Barbara Bourland, comes an "impressively intelligent thriller," nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, about a young painter who tracks the mysterious life and death of her role model, uncovering strange secrets that lead to the truth of her demise (Refinery29).

After a fire rips through her loft, destroying the seven billboard-size paintings meant for her first major exhibition, a young painter is left with an impossible task: recreate the lost artworks in just three months without getting caught -- or ruin her fledgling career. Homeless and desperate, she begs her way into Pine City, an exclusive retreat in upstate New York notorious for three things: outrageous revelries, glamorous artists, and the sparkling black lake where brilliant prodigy Carey Logan drowned herself.

Taking up residence in Carey's former studio, the painter works with obsessive, delirious focus. But when she begins to uncover strange secrets at Pine City and falls hard for Carey's mysterious boyfriend, a single thought shadows her every move: What really happened to Carey Logan?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chelsea on October 16, 2022

3.5 stars rounded to 4 I'll admit, I'm less than knowledgable about anything involving the art scene. I am not cool, hip, or in the know about much these days other than Peppa Pig and Blippi, but it was nice to delve into an "adult" story that did not feature talking pigs or a grown man wearing cloth......more

Goodreads review by Blair on July 11, 2019

(4.5) A no-name painter – 'no-name' as in 'not famous', but also literally, as she remains nameless throughout the book – is on the verge of a career breakthrough. She is nearing completion of her series Rich Ugly Old Maids, a set of large-scale oil paintings loosely based on the seven virtues. Then......more

Goodreads review by Bam cooks the books on June 19, 2019

It's 1996 and the unnamed narrator of this story is a fledgling artist from Florida, currently a sophomore at the Academy in NYC, and feeling pretty lonely in the big city. One day she notices a group of five young and beautiful artists who are 'making it' in the art scene. Three of them have gradua......more

Goodreads review by Eilonwy on March 04, 2020

A No-Name (literally and figuratively) young female painter develops a fan-girl crush on Carey Logan, the most visible and successful member of an art collective known as Pine City, who all graduated from No-Name’s art school about six to ten years ahead of her. That crush-torch is carried from a......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on December 06, 2018

I was lucky to receive an ARC of Fake Like Me, and I DEVOURED it over a weekend, taking it with me everywhere I went. A young unnamed artist struggles in the shadow of an impossibly cool dead one, another young artist—gorgeous, enigmatic, talented—worshipped beyond measure in the downtown New York/H......more

Quotes

Nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel
Winner of Baltimore Magazine's 2019 Best Book of Baltimore
A HelloGiggles Best Book of June 2019

A Refinery29 Best Book of June 2019

A Cosmopolitan June 2019 Must-Have

A Fortune Summer 2019 Travel Pick

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of Summer 2019

A CrimeReads Best Crime Books of the Year (So Far)
A Toronto Star Hot Summer Thriller Pick
A Bookish Best Cover of 2019

"Bourland expertly shines a light on the nature of female ambition and desire and the often dark heart of inspiration. Readers fascinated with the blood, sweat, and tears of creating art will be especially rewarded."—Publishers Weekly, (Starred Review)

"Menacing, swirling, hypnotic ... A haunting, dizzying meditation on identity and the blurred lines between life and art."—Kirkus, (Starred Review)

"Bourland has an uncanny knack for spatial description and relates artwork and every last thing in Pine City--"half Dirty Dancing, half Twin Peaks"--with pristinely observed color and feeling. She also nails the creep factor, and her narrator's high tolerance for it, with foreboding signs that the no-name painter isn't totally welcome there, and that there's more to Carey's story. The deck stacked against her, the narrator tells the glitteringly compelling tale of her fevered summer and wisely reveals meaningful intersections of class, gender, and making art."—Booklist, (Starred Review)

"The creative process confronts reality in this compelling literary thriller centering on art, identity, and deception, as told in Bourland's (I'll Eat When I'm Dead) sharp prose. A must for those with an artistic bent, a sheer reading pleasure for all."—Library Journal (Starred Review)

"Fake Like Me is an impressively intelligent thriller set in the art world...Expect insightful paragraphs about the creative process sprinkled among the propulsive mystery."—Refinery29

"[A] page-turning story about art imitating life."—The Palm Beach Post

"The process creators go through for the sake of their art ranges from obsessive to self-destructive, and that ideology is escalated with Bourland's cutthroat prose... The unrelenting threat hovers through the plot and rigidly keeps the reader's head just above water until the end approaches."—Fangoria Magazine

"Bourland has an astonishing ability to write viscerally about art, culture, class, and landscape, for a work that's bound to be one of the summer's biggest crime/literary crossovers."—Literary Hub

"Bourland's terrific new novel engages with the quandary of what makes a work of art authentic."—Crime Reads

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