Crudo
Olivia Laing
(Author)
Description
It's the summer of 2017 and Kathy is getting married. Meanwhile, fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is heating up, and Trump is tweeting the world ever closer to nuclear war. 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 in sight.
Product Details
Price
$14.95
$13.75
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
September 03, 2019
Pages
160
Dimensions
5.4 X 0.4 X 8.2 inches | 0.35 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393357417
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About the Author
Olivia Laing is the author of four works of nonfiction, including The Lonely City and Funny Weather, and a novel, Crudo, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. A recipient of the 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize for nonfiction, she lives in London.
Reviews
A single moment in modernity, deconstructed by the savagely entertaining, Acker-inspired voice of Laing.
A narrative written with immense vitality and, miraculously, the lightest of touches.--Deborah Levy
Written with bristling intelligence, this debut novel... pays homage to the iconoclastic author Kathy Acker, creating a pastiche of voices and identities.--Notable Book of 2018
Crudo could turn out to be a novel that we pick up years from now to remind ourselves how these times felt.--Alexandra Schwartz
Crudo seduces from the very first sentence. Laing as Acker is not a literary device--it is literary detonation.... Crudo is a hot, hot book.
A pretzel twist of form and meaning.... Laing strikes some terrific chords in this novel.--Dwight Garner
A narrative written with immense vitality and, miraculously, the lightest of touches.--Deborah Levy
Written with bristling intelligence, this debut novel... pays homage to the iconoclastic author Kathy Acker, creating a pastiche of voices and identities.--Notable Book of 2018
Crudo could turn out to be a novel that we pick up years from now to remind ourselves how these times felt.--Alexandra Schwartz
Crudo seduces from the very first sentence. Laing as Acker is not a literary device--it is literary detonation.... Crudo is a hot, hot book.
A pretzel twist of form and meaning.... Laing strikes some terrific chords in this novel.--Dwight Garner
