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Crudo Olivia Laing

Crudo By Olivia Laing

Crudo by Olivia Laing

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A New York Times Notable, The New Yorker, Washington Post, NPR, Guardian, Esquire, and Bustle Best Book of 2018

Love may not be original, but this funny, fervent novel is.-The New Yorker

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Crudo: A Novel by Olivia Laing

It's the summer of 2017 and Kathy is getting married. Meanwhile, fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is heating up, and Trump is tweeting the world ever closer to nuclear war. In Crudo, her first work of fiction, Olivia Laing radically rewires the novel with a fierce, compassionate account of learning to love when the end of the world seems in sight.

Crudo Reviews

A single moment in modernity, deconstructed by the savagely entertaining, Acker-inspired voice of Laing. -- Paris Review Daily
A narrative written with immense vitality and, miraculously, the lightest of touches. -- Deborah Levy - Wall Street Journal
Written with bristling intelligence, this debut novel... pays homage to the iconoclastic author Kathy Acker, creating a pastiche of voices and identities. -- New York Times
Breathless and gripping.... [Crudo] traps the first summer of Trump and Brexit like a fly in amber.... As a record, Crudo is perfect, and agonizing. -- NPR
[Crudo is] about the longing to escape our ossified selves-to become, if only for a moment or within the pages of a novel, someone wilder and more radically free. And in staging that longing so directly and so honestly, Olivia Laing makes Crudo>/em> her own. -- New York Times Book Review
Crudo could turn out to be a novel that we pick up years from now to remind ourselves how these times felt. -- Alexandra Schwartz - The New Yorker
Crudo seduces from the very first sentence. Laing as Acker is not a literary device-it is literary detonation.... Crudo is a hot, hot book. -- Guardian
A pretzel twist of form and meaning.... Laing strikes some terrific chords in this novel. -- Dwight Garner - New York Times
I don't think I'll ever forget the day I spent reading Crudo. I couldn't put it down, and then it overwhelmed me so much I had to put it down, and then I had to pick it back up again. A beautiful, strange, intelligent novel. -- Sally Rooney - Guardian
Laing's experiment, and it's a good one, is to describe the world-her world, between May 17 and September 23, 2017-as precisely as she can.... [Crudo is] a short, entirely readable, and lovably eccentric book. -- The Believer - Nick Hornby

About Olivia Laing

Olivia Laing is the author of five acclaimed works of nonfiction, including The Lonely City and Funny Weather. Her first novel, Crudo, won the 2019 James Tait Black Prize. The recipient of the 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize in nonfiction, Laing lives in Suffolk, United Kingdom.

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CIN0393357414VG
9780393357417
0393357414
Crudo: A Novel by Olivia Laing
Olivia Laing
Used - Very Good
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
20210507
160
Winner of James Tait Black Prize 2018
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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