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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.
- Sales Rank: #2374570 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-08-15
- Released on: 2012-08-15
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Publishers Weekly
Former journalist Klaffke's debut is a delicious guilty pleasure full of hilarious, irreverent moments in the declining career of a glossy mag gal. Sixteen years after founding the snarky Snap magazine on a shoestring budget, editor Sara B. has grown the scrappy zine into one of Canada's biggest weekly glossies, spawning three boutiques, a Trend Mecca Boot Camp Weekend and a slew of imitators. Though Sara enjoys her role as arbiter of good taste—the mag's most popular feature is her Dos and Don'ts page—she's overwhelmed by the magazine's success and having suspicions that she may be a narcissistic jerk. Furthermore, at 39, she's beginning to question the validity of a career that involves making fun of people for a living, and she's even having trouble telling the Dos from the Don'ts—a fact hammered home by her stylish young assistant. Although Sara's runaway imagination takes a few turns for the disturbing and she lucks into too many fortunate turns, her character arc and eventual shot at redemption make for absorbing reading. A dark, comic absurdity peppers every page of this sarcastic romp. (Jan.)
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From Booklist
Sara has the job that most women would kill for. As one of the founding members of the unquestionably cool underground magazine Snap, her dos-and-don’ts fashion photo column is a must-read for urban hipsters. But as she ages and as the fashions reach new heights of bizarreness, Sara begins to doubt her editorial eye and lose her confidence. Throw in a drinking problem, a relationship on the rocks, friends that are outgrowing her, and a very eager new assistant with a threateningly cool grasp on fashion, and Sara is heading for a breakdown. Klaffke, author of Spree: A Cultural History of Shopping (2003), turns to fiction to explore the idea of who decides what is cool and, more important, why we listen to them. Sara is a flawed hero whose actions and motives are questionable and often reprehensible. And yet we can’t help but root for her as she realizes that while she has spent her life judging other people, it is her own life that needs the makeover. --Claire Orphan
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"Klaffke's debut is a delicious guilty pleasure." - Publishers Weekly "Profane, painfully honest and savagely funny, Klaffke's debut novel is a coming-of-middle-age story sure to evoke terror in the under-40 set and reminiscent smiles in those who have already crossed over." - Romantic Times"
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Mixed bag
By Mint910
Snapped was sort of a mixed bag for me. At first I loved the author's humorous voice and the setting and the characters and in the end I did as well but in the middle it got a little bizarre. Let me explain, Sara goes off on these tangents in her mind where she thinks of all these horrible things that can happen and some of them were a little bit revolting. I think if that was toned down a bit it wouldn't have distracted me so much from what I liked about the book.
I really admire the originality of the author's voice and how she goes places others wouldn't dare though. I'm not sure if I exactly share her sense of humor though in the end, because while the book is listed as comical (specifically Sara making a fool of herself) I didn't find very much funny in that and it kind of stressed me out at times.
While Sara was hit and miss for me (though I do love what she decides to do with herself at the end!) one character I adored was an elderly lady she befriends by the name of Esther, anytime Esther was in a scene I loved it. I loved the stories she shared about her friend Lila and the things she did for Sara. I was also fascinated by Eva who I think really represented a different generation from Sara and was interesting to see them befriend each other and then clash.
Overall there is some really good stuff here but there were some things I could have done without. I will definitely watch to see what Klaffke comes up with next though!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Pointless, uninteresting, uneven, depressing
By AxAxOn234
As a woman who doesn't have any sort of attraction to a life in the suburbs with plastic boobs and is usually the quirky one marching to the beat of my own drum, perhaps I'm supposed to be the kind of reader this book was meant to engage? Instead, I am slightly horrified and definitely uncomfortable. I thought of not finishing it but I was procrastinating so I skipped through it pretty fast once I got tired of the unlikable narrator's voice.
The book follows 39 year old Sara through a depressing period of time in her life. The book was meant to be funny at least at times, but it really was actually sad. I kept thinking there would come a point where Sara faces the core problem she has, which is that she has a serious drinking problem. Not a day goes without her compulsively drinking (and smoking, and popping pills).
I don't know what there is to like or recommend about this book. It's not really funny, its references are unsubtle (Eva, I mean come on!), the writing is uneven, and amateurish, spelling mistakes abound... But the main problem is that there is no development of character. We start to get to know Sara and come to realise as the book develops that she has very poor self-esteem. She is mindlessly ambling through her own life, which starts unraveling as she cynically sneers at anything and everything - old people, middle aged people, suburbanites, babies, lawyers, doctors, hipsters, old friends, Sara looks down on them all. In the end, was she supposed to have grown in some way? To me the end was even worse than the begining. This detached, passive woman, now entering her 40s, supposedly surviving some kind of identity crisis about her work with new gimmicks that are sure to last just as long as that pill plus champagne buzz she has going. She still has no control over her life, watching it happen to her in between blackouts and random sex. The fact that she is such a sad person has nothing to do with being single or without children or even that she drinks and has sex. She's tuned out of her own life, self-medicating. It is borderline offensive for the book to eve suggest she could possibly be a representation of a strong female who refuses to play by society's terms and make her own path to success. Instead, she finds another temporary niche in her hipster "library" and has not really learned to love herself or accept herself. Perhaps writing about this disaffected alcoholic as an example of a modern, strong, female entrepreneur was meant to be ironic. I think instead that the reason Sara is so self-loathing could have been developed into the real heart of a novel. As such, this is an uneven mess, at times gimmicky and cheesy, at others deeply depressing.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
superb sarcastic tale
By A Customer
Fifteen years ago Sara B and Ted founded Snap with no money to truly launch the magazine. However, with its Dos and Don'ts, the magazine has become one of Canada's most popular weekly. In fact if imitation is the ultimate flattery, than Snap is the top gun.
However, as Sara B closes in on her fortieth birthday, she has lost some of her edge; even she knows she is on cruise control professional and personally. Her affair with younger Jack is okay but not any euphoric incredible. Even her renowned page Dos and Don'ts has lost its luster at least in her mind. Sara B especially feels her age since she hired energetic youthful Eva, who represents what Sara B was before she realized the new forty is still forty.
This is a superb sarcastic saga of a woman not coming to grips with middle age hammering at her when she compares herself today with Eva and with herself at Eva's age. Time has moved on and she fears passed her by when she was not looking beyond the next Don'ts. Fans who relish a dark jocular acerbic tale will appreciate this strong tale as Sara B realizes she has gone from a Do to a Don't.
Harriet Klausner
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