Crudo

b>Shortlisted for the Goldsmith's Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize and the James Tait Black Award./b>b>Dive in to a tale of love and loathing with the beach read of the summer. /b>br>br>Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It's the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart.From a Tuscan hotel for the super-rich to a Brexit-paralysed UK, Kathy spends the first summer of her forties trying to adjust to making a lifelong commitment just as Trump is tweeting the world into nuclear war. But it's not only Kathy who's 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 one rogue tweet could end it all.Olivia Laing radically rewires the novel in a brilliant, funny and emphatically raw account of love in the apocalypse. A Goodbye to Berlin for the 21st century, Crudo charts in real time what it was like to live and love in the horrifying summer of 2017, from the perspective of a commitment-phobic artist who may or may not be Kathy Acker . . .

About the author

Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. They're the author of several books, including The Lonely City, Everybody and Funny Weather. Their first novel, Crudo, was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and won the 2019 James Tait Memorial Prize. Their work has been translated into twenty-one languages and in 2018 they were awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction.

Product details

• Authors: Olivia Laing, Laing Olivia
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 21.03.2019
• EAN: 9781509892846
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-9284-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Aziza's Secret Fairy Door
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Political, Seasonal interest: Summer, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Politics, Modern and contemporary fiction, Biographical fiction