Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl (Hardcover)

'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 Greenwell It'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

General

Imprint:	Picador
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2019
Authors:	Andrea Lawlor
Dimensions:	223 x 144 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-5290-0766-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Shipping In 24hrs Books > Promotion > Mid-Year Book Sale > Fiction
LSN:	1-5290-0766-6
Barcode:	9781529007664

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