| Crudo Contributor(s): Laing, Olivia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393652726 ISBN-13: 9780393652727 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Humorous - Black Humor |
| Dewey: 823.92 |
| LCCN: 2018145918 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" (0.60 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: She had no idea what to do with love, she experienced it as invasion, as the prelude to loss and pain, she really didn't have a clue. Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It's the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart. Fast-paced and frantic, Crudo unfolds in real time from the full-throttle perspective of a commitment-phobic artist who may or may not be Kathy Acker. From a Tuscan hotel for the superrich to a Brexit-paralyzed United Kingdom, Kathy spends the first summer of her forties adjusting to the idea of a lifelong commitment. But it's not only Kathy who's changing. Fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is heating up, and Trump is tweeting the world ever-closer to nuclear war. How do you make art, let alone a life, when one rogue tweet could end it all? In Crudo, her first work of fiction, Olivia Laing radically rewires the novel with a fierce, compassionate account of learning to love when the end of the world seems near. |
Contributor Bio(s): Laing, Olivia: - Winner of the 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize for nonfiction, Olivia Laing is the author of three previous books of nonfiction, including The Lonely City, and one novel, Crudo. Her work has been translated into fifteen languages. She lives in London, England. |