TOP DOLL
Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot 2024
Seiten
2024
Dialogue Books (Verlag)
978-0-349-70345-9 (ISBN)
Dialogue Books (Verlag)
978-0-349-70345-9 (ISBN)
The lyrical, hilarious and totally original debut novel by award-winning poet and campaigner, Karen McCarthy Woolf.
'Extraordinarily inventive, witty, moving and profound.' Bernardine Evaristo
'If you read one novel this year, let it be Top Doll. This is innovative, exquisitely crafted storytelling at its finest.' Malika Booker
When reclusive billionaire Huguette Clark dies age 104, she leaves behind a suite of New York apartments, a meticulously upkept California mansion, at least one Monet and her vast collection of antique dolls. Having barely been outside for 50 years, the elusive Clark spoke to few--in this highly unreliable, semi-fictional miniature epic, the dolls tell all.
Theirs is a tale that takes us from their lavish Park Avenue home back in time to the slave plantations of Virginia and the palaces of Imperial Japan via the addictive hedonism of 1930s queer LA.
Joyfully irreverent, Top Doll is a story of love, betrayal, Barbies and ultimately, what it means to be human.
'An astonishing combination of depth, compassion and beauty. A constant series of delicious surprises.' Leone Ross
***
Praise for An Aviary of Small Birds:
'Beautiful, painful, pitch-perfect . . . McCarthy Woolf's tuning fork always rings true.' Guardian
'I loved Karen McCarthy Woolf's technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak.' Maggie Gee, The Observer
Praise for Seasonal Disturbances:
'A strange and stunning collection from a true writer. Vulnerable, hilarious and wise.' Warsan Shire
'An unclassifiable book, revolutionary in its engagement with form, stunning in its intersectional politics, and an extraordinary achievement . . . It will break you, in a good way.' Poetry School Books of the Year 2017
'Extraordinarily inventive, witty, moving and profound.' Bernardine Evaristo
'If you read one novel this year, let it be Top Doll. This is innovative, exquisitely crafted storytelling at its finest.' Malika Booker
When reclusive billionaire Huguette Clark dies age 104, she leaves behind a suite of New York apartments, a meticulously upkept California mansion, at least one Monet and her vast collection of antique dolls. Having barely been outside for 50 years, the elusive Clark spoke to few--in this highly unreliable, semi-fictional miniature epic, the dolls tell all.
Theirs is a tale that takes us from their lavish Park Avenue home back in time to the slave plantations of Virginia and the palaces of Imperial Japan via the addictive hedonism of 1930s queer LA.
Joyfully irreverent, Top Doll is a story of love, betrayal, Barbies and ultimately, what it means to be human.
'An astonishing combination of depth, compassion and beauty. A constant series of delicious surprises.' Leone Ross
***
Praise for An Aviary of Small Birds:
'Beautiful, painful, pitch-perfect . . . McCarthy Woolf's tuning fork always rings true.' Guardian
'I loved Karen McCarthy Woolf's technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak.' Maggie Gee, The Observer
Praise for Seasonal Disturbances:
'A strange and stunning collection from a true writer. Vulnerable, hilarious and wise.' Warsan Shire
'An unclassifiable book, revolutionary in its engagement with form, stunning in its intersectional politics, and an extraordinary achievement . . . It will break you, in a good way.' Poetry School Books of the Year 2017
Born in London to English and Jamaican parents, Karen McCarthy Woolf FRSL is the author of three poetry books and the editor of numerous literary anthologies. As a postdoctoral Fulbright Scholar at UCLA, Karen was writer in residence at the Promise Institute for Human Rights. Her debut, An Aviary of Small Birds, was an Observer Book of the Year and her second collection, Seasonal Disturbances, which explored nature, the city and the sacred, was a winner in the Laurel Prize for ecological poetry.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.01.2024 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 142 x 218 mm |
| Gewicht | 340 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| ISBN-10 | 0-349-70345-0 / 0349703450 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-349-70345-9 / 9780349703459 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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