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Unemployed and daggy Joseph lies his way onto a reality television show by reinventing himself as the hip, sexy and popular Jeb. With the help of his friend Allison they invent the whole enchilada to match his new alter ego: a cool job as a money market whiz, a beautiful ex-girlfriend who leaks his cute baby pictures to the network, even hiring actors to play his adoring picture-perfect, golf-loving parents. With his new identity and hep cat personality in place, he fumbles his way through the bizarre world of reality TV interviews and terrifying pre-screenings to land a coveted role on the next big thing, a dating show in which a bunch of guys compete for the love of 'The Virgin', a beautiful woman no red-blooded man could resist.
Like the reality TV craze it skewers, The Virgin is funny, highly addictive, full of fabulous fly-on-the-wall confrontations between a cast of all too scarily real characters, complete with a shocking surprise ending. And thanks to Jeb's misadventures behind the scenes, more compulsive than any reality show.
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Praise for The Virgin:
'If Nathaniel West and Bret Easton Ellis had a child, he might be Erik Barmack ... The Virgin is quirkily, compulsively original.'
TAMA JANOWITZ, author of Slaves of New York
'A taut, gripping read from start to finish. Barmack skewers the reality show industry with panache, intelligence, and a surprising amount of heart.'
AARON HAMBURGER, author of The View from Stalin's Head
`A dazzling debut that will catapult Erik Barmack to the front rank of contemporary authors.'
TOBY YOUNG, author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
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