TOP DOLL: Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot 2024 - Couverture rigide

Woolf, Karen McCarthy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0349703450 ISBN 13 : 9780349703459

Editeur : Dialogue Books, 2024

Synopsis

The lyrical, hilarious and totally original debut novel by award-winning poet and campaigner, Karen McCarthy Woolf.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born in London to English and Jamaican parents, Karen McCarthy Woolf FRSL is the author of three poetry books and the editor of numerous literary anthologies. As a postdoctoral Fulbright Scholar at UCLA, Karen was writer in residence at the Promise Institute for Human Rights. Her debut, An Aviary of Small Birds, was an Observer Book of the Year and her second collection, Seasonal Disturbances, which explored nature, the city and the sacred, was a winner in the Laurel Prize for ecological poetry.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

'An astonishing combination of depth, compassion and beauty. A constant series of delicious surprises.' Leone Ross

'If you read one novel this year let it be Top Doll. This is innovative, exquisitely crafted storytelling at its finest.' Malika Booker

'Wild, queer and unstoppably inventive . . .This book is poignantly absurd and unsentimentally tender' Kit Fan

'McCarthy Woolf's tuning fork always rings true' Guardian

'An immersive, playful, multi-voiced time-travelling story. . . Top Doll is a book that is truly worthy of the term "novel"' Raymond Antrobus

'A strange and stunning collection from a true writer. Vulnerable, hilarious and wise.' Warsan Shire on Seasonal Disturbances

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

When reclusive billionaire Huguette Clark dies age 104, she leaves behind a suite of New York apartments, a meticulously upkept California mansion, a Monet and her vast collection of antique dolls. Having barely been outside for 50 years, the elusive Clark spoke to few - in this highly unreliable, semi-fictional miniature epic, the dolls tell all.

Theirs is a tale that takes us from their lavish Park Avenue home back in time to the slave plantations of Virginia and the palaces of Imperial Japan via the addictive hedonism of 1930s queer LA.

Joyfully irreverent, Top Doll is a story of love, betrayal, Barbies and ultimately, what it means to be human.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dialogue Books
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0349703450
• ISBN 13: 9780349703459
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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