We are Made of Diamond Stuff - Couverture souple

Waidner, Isabel

 
9781913512088: We are Made of Diamond Stuff

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.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

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.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9781999924539: We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1999924533 ISBN 13 :  9781999924539
Editeur : Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2019
Couverture souple