{"product_id":"self-worth-emma-tholozan-9781761381218","title":"Self-Worth","description":"\u003cp\u003eTrue love or easy money - which would you choose?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFresh from graduating with her master's in philosophy, Anna is shocked when a career counsellor tells her she has 'no special skills'. Desperate for work and financial independence, she accepts a thankless job at a TV talk show. She might be making minimum wage, but at least she has her boyfriend Lulu, the love of her life, to come home to at night.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut one day Lulu starts throwing up cash - thousands of euros in just a few days - hurtling the twenty-something couple into unforeseen wealth. Having spent their lives proudly rejecting consumer society, they suddenly find themselves rich, and Anna is loving every minute of it- she gets a designer bag, they vacation in Tahiti, they throw wild parties in their fancy new apartment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs Anna grows accustomed to a life of luxury, Lulu's health suffers, and she wonders- what would be worse, losing him or losing the money?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Self-Worth newcomer Emma Tholozan delivers a raw, brutally funny portrait of a generation without ideals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'The trope of the goose that lays the golden egg gets a wacky, late-capitalist makeover in Emma Tholozan's Self-Worth ... There are plenty of witty passages and a flurry of shallow cuts.'\n\u003cbr\u003e-Cameron Woodhead, The Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Offbeat, funny, and singular ... A breath of fresh air.'\n\u003cbr\u003e-Le Soir\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Taking the pulse of consumer culture while inscribing its most ridiculous consequences, this portrait of survival and yearning brilliantly and incisively excoriates the glittering facades of purchased fantasies.'\n\u003cbr\u003e-Asymptote Journal\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emma Tholozan","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48863918784755,"sku":"9781761381218","price":27.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781761381218.jpg?v=1776715282","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/self-worth-emma-tholozan-9781761381218","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}