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Zusatztext Exuberance shows in the novel's sentences! which rush by! fleet and frenetic! nearly tripping over the speed bumps of their own commas. "Everything was hotting up! going faster and faster!" Laing writes. You can practically see the steam rising off the page . . . Crudo could turn out to be a novel that we pick up years from now to remind ourselves how these times felt! should we have the stomach for that . . . Love may not be original! but this funny! fervent novel is. Informationen zum Autor Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. She’s the author of several books, including The Lonely City, Everybody and Funny Weather . Her first novel, Crudo , was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and won the 2019 James Tait Memorial Prize. Her work has been translated into twenty-one languages and in 2018 she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction. Klappentext questioning love letter to life and to art, will blow you away.' Deborah Levy 'Readable, shockingly new, and surprisingly tender. I didn't want it to stop.' Chris Kraus 'I read it in one go, lost all sense of time, floating on the rhythm, stung by the beats, I bet Kathy Acker would have loved it, I did.' Viv Albertine 'One long electric dream, spinning with intimate energy and the sharpest saddest funniest humour.' Philip Hoare? 'I adored Crudo. I believe it is a great novel. Olivia writes so beautifully about life and nature in both city and country, and always finds some aspect to laugh about, one feels today's world is worth saving.' Jilly Cooper 'The diffuse literary form of Crudo is ridiculously good. Olivia Laing has probably the most art & texture savvy sensitive ear of anyone writing today. Here, try it.' Eileen Myles Zusammenfassung 'I couldn't put it down' – Sally Rooney, author of Normal People Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It’s the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart. Kathy spends the first summer of her forties trying to adjust to making a lifelong commitment – marriage. But it’s not only Kathy who is changing. Political, social and natural landscapes are all in peril. Fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is hotting up. Is it really worth learning to love when the end of the world is nigh? And how do you make art, let alone a life, when it could all end at any moment? From a Tuscan hotel for the super-rich to a politically-paralysed UK, Olivia Laing's first novel is a love letter, inspired by the life and work of Kathy Acker. It is a blistering rewire of the form and a brilliant, funny and emphatically raw account of love in the apocalypse. '[Crudo] will blow you away' – Deborah Levy, author of Hot Milk Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the Goldsmith's Prize and the Gordon Burn Prize ...
