Isaac by Curtis Garner

Isaac by Curtis Garner

In modern-day London, inexperienced teenager Isaac loses his virginity through a dating app - a disappointing yet addictive experience. Overwhelmed by his A-Level exams and uncertain future, he spends his last summer before university escaping into a dizzying new world of casual sex with forgettable men. Until he meets twenty-eight-year-old Harrison at a party. Isaac is immediately infatuated by the handsome, charismatic artist, but as they grow closer, his sense of self becomes increasingly hazy. Harrison's demands shift constantly, and while Isaac tries everything to prove his worthiness, jeopardising his relationships with his mother and his best friend in the process, he must ask himself: is he complicit in his own suffering? Is Harrison the reason he has lost himself, or did he even know who he was to begin with?

So vivid and real, it brought a thousand memories rushing back.. I loved the sheer power of Isaac's emotions, overwhelming him - that lovely, awful, endless battle, asking of your boyfriend: who are you? Which is really asking: who am I? -- Russell T Davies
A luminous and beautiful debut about coming-of-age in London today. An instant queer classic -- Jon Ransom, author of The Whale Tattoo and The Gallopers
Truly impressive: funny, melancholic and acutely real. Isaac takes me back to my own adolescence in London, to being on the precipice of adult life... bracing and uncensorious -- James Cahill, author of Tiepolo Blue
In debut novel Isaac, Curtis Garner captures the complexities of coming of age as a young, queer person... Isaac's journey is every queer reader's journey delivered with wit, honesty, sexuality and tenderness * Attitude *
I really enjoyed this beautifully written debut charting the coming-of-age of a gay Londoner teetering on the cusp of adulthood as, while studying for his A-levels, he makes his early sexual forays via dating apps and a relationship with a man a decade older. Set across one transformative summer, Isaac capture the vulnerability of first love and that raw youthful longing for experience, even if it is often disappointing or demeaning. In precise prose, Garner considers the interplay of desire, shame, masculinity and queerness in the digital age * The Bookseller Editor's Choice *

Curtis Garner is the author of the ‘instant queer classic’ Isaac, which was published in 2024 to critical acclaim. He was born in Cornwall in 1996 and moved to London when he was eighteen to study Creative Writing and English Literature. He graduated in 2017 and has been working in publishing since. In 2020 he also received an MA with Distinction from Manchester Writing School, where much of Isaac was written. In his spare time he reviews novels on Instagram (@queer_novels). Orange is his second novel.

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ISBN 13	9780857308658
ISBN 10	0857308653
Title	Isaac
Author	Curtis Garner
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Verve Books
Year published	2024-11-28
Number of pages	288
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