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Crudo Olivia Laing

Crudo By Olivia Laing

Crudo by Olivia Laing

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Summary

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

A brilliant, funny, and emphatically raw novel of love on the brink of the apocalypse, from the acclaimed author of The Lonely City.

Crudo Summary

Crudo: A Novel by Olivia Laing

She had no idea what to do with love, she experienced it as invasion, as the prelude to loss and pain, she really didn't have a clue.

Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It's the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart. Fast-paced and frantic, Crudo unfolds in real time from the full-throttle perspective of a commitment-phobic artist who may or may not be Kathy Acker.

From a Tuscan hotel for the superrich to a Brexit-paralyzed United Kingdom, Kathy spends the first summer of her forties adjusting to the idea of a lifelong commitment. But it's not only Kathy who's changing. Fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is heating up, and Trump is tweeting the world ever-closer to nuclear war. How do you make art, let alone a life, when one rogue tweet could end it all?

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 near.

Crudo Reviews

Crudo could turn out to be a novel that we pick up years from now to remind ourselves how these times felt... Love may not be original, but this funny, fervent novel is. -- Alexandra Schwartz - The New Yorker
Written with bristling intelligence... [Crudo is] about the longing to escape our ossified selves-to become, if only for 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 her own. -- New York Times Book Review
Like the foodstuff for which it is named, Olivia Laing's Crudo is weird, intense, served in a small portion, and totally delicious... Beautifully written and artfully focused. -- Rebecca Mead - The New Yorker
Breathless and gripping... [Crudo] traps the first summer of Trump and Brexit like a fly in amber. -- NPR
[A] pretzel twist of form and meaning... Laing strikes some terrific chords in this novel. -- Dwight Garner - New York Times
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] 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... It's a subversive love story that shouldn't work, but does. -- Deborah Levy - Wall Street Journal
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. -- Nick Hornby - The Believer
Laing...dunks you into the narrative and its fast-moving waters. It's only once you get to the end that you realize you've been holding your breath. -- Vanity Fair
[Crudo] manages to capture the delirium and anxiety of carrying on through [this] turbulent period with searing clarity. -- Time

About Olivia Laing

Olivia Laing is the author of three acclaimed works of nonfiction, To the River (2011), The Trip to Echo Spring (2013), and The Lonely City (2016), which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and has been translated into seventeen languages. Her first novel, Crudo, was a New York Times Notable Book and won the 2019 James Tait Black Prize. She writes for the Guardian, New York Times, and frieze, among many other publications. Her collected writing on art, Funny Weather, was published in 2020. The recipient of the 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize in nonfiction, Laing lives in Suffolk, UK.

Additional information

GOR013599743
9780393652727
0393652726
Crudo: A Novel by Olivia Laing
Olivia Laing
Used - Very Good
Hardback
WW Norton & Co
20180911
160
Commended for New York Times Notable Selection 2018 Short-listed for Goldsmiths Prize 2018
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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