Crudo - by Olivia Laing (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A <em>New York Times</em> Notable, <em>Washington Post</em>, <em>NPR</em>, <em>Guardian</em>, and <em>Bustle</em> Best Book of 2018<br /><br /> A brilliant, funny, and emphatically raw novel of love on the brink of the apocalypse, from the acclaimed author of <em>The Lonely City</em>.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p> <em>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.</em> </p><p>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, <em>Crudo</em> unfolds in real time from the full-throttle perspective of a commitment-phobic artist who may or may not be Kathy Acker.</p><p>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?</p><p>In <em>Crudo</em>, 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><em>Crudo </em>seduces from the very first sentence. Laing as Acker is not a literary device--it is literary detonation... <em>Crudo </em>is a hot, hot book.-- "Guardian"<br><br><em>Crudo</em> 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 "The New Yorker"<br><br>[<em>Crudo</em>] manages to capture the delirium and anxiety of carrying on through [this] turbulent period with searing clarity.-- "Time"<br><br>[A] pretzel twist of form and meaning... Laing strikes some terrific chords in this novel.--Dwight Garner "New York Times"<br><br>[A] single moment in modernity, deconstructed by the savagely entertaining, Acker-inspired voice of Laing.-- "Paris Review Daily"<br><br>A narrative written with immense vitality and, miraculously, the lightest of touches... It's a subversive love story that shouldn't work, but does.--Deborah Levy "Wall Street Journal"<br><br>Breathless and gripping... [<em>Crudo</em>] traps the first summer of Trump and Brexit like a fly in amber.-- "NPR"<br><br>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.-- "Vanity Fair"<br><br>Laing's experiment, and it's a good one, is to describe the world--her world, between May 17 and September 23, 2017--as precisely as she can... [<em>Crudo </em>is] a short, entirely readable, and lovably eccentric book.--Nick Hornby "The Believer"<br><br>Like the foodstuff for which it is named, Olivia Laing's <em>Crudo </em>is weird, intense, served in a small portion, and totally delicious... Beautifully written and artfully focused.--Rebecca Mead "The New Yorker"<br><br>Written with bristling intelligence... [<em>Crudo</em> is] about the longing to escape our ossified selves--to become, if only for moment or within the pages of a novel, someone wilder and more radically free. And in staging that longing so directly and so honestly, Olivia Laing makes <em>Crudo </em>her own.-- "New York Times Book Review"<br>
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