We are Made of Diamond Stuff - Couverture souple

Waidner, Isabel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1913512088 ISBN 13 : 9781913512088

Editeur : Peninsula Press Ltd, 2022

Synopsis

Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize

Polar bears emerge from t-shirts. Reeboks come to life. Nothing is normal in the house of Mother Normal.

In Isabel Waidner’s second novel, we follow an unnamed narrator who looks like Eleven from Stranger Things, but is in fact a 36-year-old migrant working for minimum wage in a run-down hotel on the Isle of Wight. Along with their best friend, Shae, the narrator faces Ukip activists, shapeshifting creatures, and despotic bosses while trying to hold down their job and preparing for their Life in the UK test.

This is fiction that extends the avant-garde tradition beyond the upper-class experience that it usually chronicles – making it over as an ally of working-class queer experience. Set against a backdrop of austerity and decline, We Are Made of Diamond Stuff is an irreverent, boundary-erasing piece of work that celebrates the radical potential of resistance, ingenuity, and friendship.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Isabel Waidner is a writer and critical theorist. Their books include Gaudy Bauble (2017), Liberating the Canon: An Anthology of Innovative Literature (ed., 2018), and Sterling Karat Gold (2021). Their work has been shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize and for the Goldsmiths Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peninsula Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1913512088
• ISBN 13: 9781913512088
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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