Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl
Andrea Lawlor
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 20th Feb '20
£8.99
Transposing Virginia Woolf’s Orlando to 90s San Francisco, this novel of transgender metamorphosis is a wild, sexy, funny and moving story of living on the edge.
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Description
‘One of the most exciting – and one of the most fun – novels of the decade.’ – Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to YouIt’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a lesbian best friend, makes zines, and is a flaneur with a rich dating life. But Paul’s also got a secret: he’s a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot Grrrl to leather cub, Women’s Studies major to trade, Paul transforms his body at will in a series of adventures that take him from Iowa City to Boystown to Provincetown and finally to San Francisco – a journey through the deep queer archives of struggle and pleasure. Andrea Lawlor’s debut novel offers a speculative history of early 90s identity politics during the heyday of ACT UP and Queer Nation. Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl is a riotous, razor-sharp bildungsroman whose hero/ine wends his way through a world gutted by loss, pulsing with music, and opening into an array of intimacy and connections.———————————–‘Playful, sexy, smart’ – Carmen Maria Machado’Evocative and urgent . . . and very funny’ Observer'”90s punk Orlando”. . . a pretty wild ride’ Dazed & Confused’Sexy, outrageous, completely compulsive’ Daisy Johnson
Additional information
Weight | 0.255 kg |
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Dimensions | 21 × 130 × 197 mm |
Page Count | 320 |