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Selling LipService

Tammy Baikie

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      Compared to the likes of Clockwork Orange, Zoo City, and Dub Steps, Selling LipService is a daring novel. Selling LipService introduces its reader to a strange assortment of new vocabulary, and through this touches on the familiar danger of the commercialization of language. Through a linguistically brilliant text, Tammy Baikie has created a world that exposes a society swallowed up by ad men. Since coming of age, Frith must wear a LipService patch to write or speak. The words the patch produces are not her own. Scripted by copywriters, they promote one sponsoring brand or another. With them, You—a voice in her head that is the patch's brand persona and her conformist alter ego—appears. Through the noise of You talking about a variety of different LipService brands, Frith struggles to find her way back to speaking for herself. She believes her tastures, her ability to taste things she touches, are the key. But other elements of this consumerist society are equally interested in tastures for commercial gain.
      CONTRIBUTORS: Tammy Baikie EAN: 9781431424795 COUNTRY: South Africa PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: FICTION / General WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Republic of South Africa, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
      Compared to the likes of Clockwork Orange, Zoo City, and Dub Steps, Selling LipService is a daring novel. Selling LipService introduces its reader to a strange assortment of new vocabulary, and through this touches on the familiar danger of the commercialization of language. Through a linguistically brilliant text, Tammy Baikie has created a world that exposes a society swallowed up by ad men. Since coming of age, Frith must wear a LipService patch to write or speak. The words the patch produces are not her own. Scripted by copywriters, they promote one sponsoring brand or another. With them, You—a voice in her head that is the patch's brand persona and her conformist alter ego—appears. Through the noise of You talking about a variety of different LipService brands, Frith struggles to find her way back to speaking for herself. She believes her tastures, her ability to taste things she touches, are the key. But other elements of this consumerist society are equally interested in tastures for commercial gain.
      CONTRIBUTORS: Tammy Baikie EAN: 9781431424795 COUNTRY: South Africa PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: FICTION / General WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Republic of South Africa, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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      Tammy Baikie is a translator who works in French, German, and Russian and has professional experience in the advertising and communications sector. Tammy attended the SUISS summer writing program in Edinburgh and completed an MA in Creative Writing at Wits. She was longlisted in the 2010/2011 Fish International Short Story Contest.

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