Author: Will Aitken
Year: 2000
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Contemporary
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9780679310402
9780679311065
0679310401
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From the publisher (source: The Internet Book List):
From the publisher:
Louise Painchaud, a lanky, lusty Albertan is hired as an English language coach by the School of Heartful Purity in Japan, an institution dedicated to staging kitschy Western musicals with all-girl casts. this is the Japan of the eighties, flush with money, wild with possibility, and afflicted with a severe case of self-worship - expressed most vividly in the coutry's adoration of a slim golden pop star named Oro. The gaijin giantess ends up playing Eurydice to the tiny Oro's Orpheus in a love affair that scandalizes the nation. A sexy, funny, irreverent work of fiction, Realia explores how pop culture becomes contemporary myth, and how ancient myth still feeds the heart of pop culture.
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