Crudo - by Olivia Laing (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A <em>New York Times</em> Notable, <em>The New Yorker</em>, <em>Washington Post</em>, NPR, <em>Guardian</em>, <em>Esquire</em>, and <em>Bustle</em> Best Book of 2018<br /><br /> "Love may not be original, but this funny, fervent novel is."--<em>The New Yorker</em><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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 <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 in sight.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></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.--Alexandra Schwartz "The New Yorker"<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> is] about the longing to escape our ossified selves--to become, if only for a 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.</em>-- "New York Times Book Review"<br><br>A narrative written with immense vitality and, miraculously, the lightest of touches.--Deborah Levy "Wall Street Journal"<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>Breathless and gripping.... [<em>Crudo</em>] traps the first summer of Trump and Brexit like a fly in amber.... As a record, <em>Crudo</em> is perfect, and agonizing.-- "NPR"<br><br>I don't think I'll ever forget the day I spent reading <em>Crudo</em>. I couldn't put it down, and then it overwhelmed me so much I had to put it down, and then I had to pick it back up again. A beautiful, strange, intelligent novel.--Sally Rooney "Guardian"<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.--The Believer "Nick Hornby"<br><br>Written with bristling intelligence, this debut novel... pays homage to the iconoclastic author Kathy Acker, creating a pastiche of voices and identities.-- "New York Times"<br>
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