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Title: Crudo: Love in the Apocalypse
Author: LAING OLIVIA
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 28/06/2018
Imprint: PICADOR
Price: $15.00
Publishing status: Active
Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It’s the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart.
From a Tuscan hotel for the super-rich to a Brexit-paralysed UK, Kathy spends the first summer of her 40s trying to adjust to making a lifelong commitment just as Trump is tweeting the world into nuclear war. But it’s not only Kathy who’s changing. Political, social and natural landscapes are all in peril. Fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is hotting up. Is it really worth learning to love when the end of the world is nigh? And how do you make art, let alone a life, when one rogue tweet could end it all.
Olivia Laing radically rewires the novel in a brilliant, funny and emphatically raw account of love in the apocalypse. A Goodbye to Berlin for the 21st century, Crudo charts in real time what it was like to live and love in the horrifying summer of 2017, from the perspective of a commitment-phobic peripatetic artist who may or may not be Kathy Acker . . .
gleebooks review
An exhilarating hybrid memoir/novel ( known as autofiction) in which the personal and political intersect as Laing documents the summer of 2017 through the prism of both herself and deceased 80s punk writer Kathy Acker. Surprisingly moving, funny, and fiercely intelligent.
ISBN: 9781509892839
Dimension: 197mm X 130mm
Pages: 176