Crudo

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  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2018)
  • Goldsmiths Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2018)
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Crudo

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ISBN: 9781509892839
Authors: Olivia Laing
Publisher: Picador
Date of Publication: 2018-06-28
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.2
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A brilliant, funny, and emphatically raw novel of love on the brink of the apocalypse, from the acclaimed author of The Lonely City."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."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, Crudo unfolds in real time from the full-throttle perspective of a commitment-phobic artist who may or may not be Kathy Acker.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?In Crudo, 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.
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