Crudo
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.
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Reviews
[A] single moment in modernity, deconstructed by the savagely entertaining, Acker-inspired voice of Laing.
Laing...dunks you into the narrative and its fast-moving waters. It's only once you get to the end that you realize you've been holding your breath.
[A] pretzel twist of form and meaning... Laing strikes some terrific chords in this novel.--Dwight Garner
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.
Crudo could turn out to be a novel that we pick up years from now to remind ourselves how these times felt... Love may not be original, but this funny, fervent novel is.--Alexandra Schwartz
