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West Girls [electronic resource]

Laura Elizabeth Woollett2023
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‘I chose the jagged rocks, the broken bones, the spattered brains. I chose beauty. I'd choose it again.' Luna Lewis is white. But her friends aren't, nor are her brothers, nor her one-time Princess of Indonesia–finalist stepmother. After transforming from pudgy preteen to ‘exotic' beauty, Luna reinvents herself as ‘Luna Lu' and takes her ticket out of the most isolated city on earth. However, as her international modelling career approaches its expiry date, Luna must grapple with what she's sacrificed — and who she's become — in her mission to conquer the world. Featuring an intersecting cast of glamour-hungry public schoolgirls, WAGs, mining heiresses, backpacker-barmaids, and cosmetic nurses, West Girls examines beauty, race, class divisions, and social mobility in Australia's richest state. It's also a devastating catalogue of the myriad, inventive ways in which women love and hurt one another. ‘West Girls shows us a sordid, self-regarding, and shiny world of schoolgirl...
Main title:
West Girls [electronic resource] / Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Author:
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Wavesound from W. F. Howes Ltd, 2023
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file) (215 MB, 07:50:51 H)
Performers:
Narrator: Zoe Trilsbach
Audience:
Adult
System details:
Platform: findawayMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781004137664
Language:
English
BRN:
518902
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