Description
| Product ID: | 9781529007671 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl |
| Authors: | Author: Andrea Lawlor |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), California, c 1990 to c 2000 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Transposing Virginia Woolf’s Orlando to 90s San Francisco, this novel of transgender metamorphosis is a wild, sexy, funny and moving story of living on the edge. <p><b>Andrea Lawlor’s debut novel offers a speculative history of early 90s identity politics during the heyday of ACT UP and Queer Nation.</b><br><br><b>'One of the most exciting - and one of the most fun - novels of the decade.' - Garth Greenwell, author of <i>What Belongs to You</i></b><br><br>It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a lesbian best friend, makes zines, and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul’s also got a secret: he’s a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot Grrrl to leather cub, Women’s Studies major to trade, Paul transforms his body at will in a series of adventures that take him from Iowa City to Boystown to Provincetown and finally to San Francisco – a journey through the deep queer archives of struggle and pleasure.<br><br><b><i>Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl </i>is a riotous, razor-sharp bildungsroman whose hero/ine wends his way through a world gutted by loss, pulsing with music, and opening into an array of intimacy and connections.</b><br><br>-----------------------------------<br><b>'Playful, sexy, smart' - Carmen Maria Machado</b><br><b>'Evocative and urgent . . . and very funny' – <i>Observer</i></b><br><b>'"</b><b>90s punk Orlando”. . . a pretty wild ride' – <i>Dazed & Confused</i></b><br><b>'Sexy, outrageous, completely compulsive' – Daisy Johnson</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-02-22 |
