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UH HUH HER

Rachel Cattle author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:MOIST

Published:30th Jul '24

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An unnamed, female narrator travels through school, then art school, then art school teaching jobs, finding or fashioning "the selves of herself" via encounters with PJ Harvey, the ghosts of Ann Quin, Susan Sontag, and a mansplaining Analyst that she first encounters in her grandparents' garden. Both a love letter to creative life, and a requiem for all that is lost in its pursuit, UH HUH HER asks is it possible to record-and retain-our experiences of being on the outside? Or can such stories only exist within the institutions that shape them?

"A Summer Reading Recommendation." Frieze --------- "A gripping and beautifully written trip through the scenes from an artist's life." The Crack --------- "Loved it so much. It's as if Charlie Kaufman had a baby with Gertrude Stein." Misha Honcharenko. "UH HUH HER made me realise that when people describe a surreal dream they experienced, they're describing the life of an artist; the self-taken quest in-and-out of our control and the uncanny comfort of feeling connected to everything and everyone." Jen Calleja ---------- "An intimate, loveable and witty whirl through a life in art. Uh Huh Her is a blissful homage to Ann Quin, PJ Harvey and anyone who's picked up a purple felt tip pen in anger and love." Toby Litt -------- "Cattle weaves ways of telling that conjure a life as a canon of writers, artists, musicians, women, magically unfolding, box within box, life within life. Subtle, twisty, rich, nimble." Joanna Walsh -------- "Drawing upon early punk years through to the stresses of precarious institutional life UH HUH HER weaves avant-garde and familial influences into a compassionate, compelling and politically astute work. A delight." Anne Tallentire -------- "It is a rare thing, when a work is openly trying to figure itself out like this, right there in the process of its own making. Rare but very welcome ... When I put this book down and turn off the light, it will still be pulsing, high on its own supply, humming, whirring, continuing to read and to write itself, smiling at itself in mirrors." Paul Becker

ISBN: 9781913430177

Dimensions: 190mm x 120mm x 15mm

Weight: unknown

204 pages