Crudo : a novel

Summary: "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.

Item details

ISBN: 9780393652727
ISBN: 0393652726
Physical Description: print
141 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.
Copyright: ©2018

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Anyway -- Knots -- Swimming in the air -- Not you -- Papers & paints.

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