Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl Hardback
by Andrea Lawlor
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'Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is quite simply one of the most exciting - and one of the most fun - novels of the decade.' Garth GreenwellIt'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, and like nothing else I -or you - have ever read before.' Carmen Maria Machado
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Pan Macmillan
- Publication Date:18/04/2019
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- ISBN:9781529007664
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Pan Macmillan
- Publication Date:18/04/2019
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- ISBN:9781529007664