The Book Of Ayn Lexi Freiman by Lexi Freiman 9781646221929, 1646221923 instant download after payment.

After writing a satirical novel that The New York Times calls classist, Anna is shunned by the literary establishment and, in her hurt, radicalized by the philosophy of Ayn Rand. Determined to follow Rand’s theory of rational selfishness, Anna alienates herself from the scene & eventually her friends & family. Finally, in true Randian style, she abandons everyone for the boundless horizons of Los Angeles, hoping to make a TV show about her beloved muse.

Things look better in Hollywood—until the money starts running out, & with it Anna’s faith in the virtue of selfishness. When a death in the family sends her running back to New York & then spiraling at her mother’s house, Anna is offered a different kind of opportunity. A chance to kill the ego causing her pain at a mysterious commune on the island of Lesbos. 

The second half of Anna’s odyssey finds her exploring a very different kind of freedom – communal love, communal toilets – & a new perspective on Ayn Rand that could bring Anna back home to herself. "A gimlet-eyed satirist of the cultural morasses & political impasses of our times" (Alexandra Kleeman), Lexi Freiman speaks in The Book of Ayn not only to a particular millennial loneliness, but also to a timeless existential predicament: the strangeness, absurdity, & hilarity of seeking meaning in the modern world.

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Lexi Freiman is a fiction editor at George Braziller, a publisher in NY, & a recent Columbia U. MFA grad. She was a Center for Fiction Writing Fellow in 2013 & has published in The Literary Review. Before moving to NY, she was an actress with Australia’s national Shakespeare company,…