· Olivia Laing is the author of five acclaimed works of nonfiction, including The Lonely City and Funny Weather. Her first novel, Crudo, won the James Tait Black Prize. The recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize in nonfiction, Laing lives in Suffolk, United bltadwin.run description: Reprint. 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. Read more Read less Previous page/5(45). Olivia Laing is the author of five acclaimed works of nonfiction, including The Lonely City and Funny Weather. Her first novel, Crudo, won the James Tait Black Prize. The recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize in nonfiction, Laing lives in Suffolk, United Kingdom/5(50).
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 , from the perspective of a commitment-phobic peripatetic artist who may or may not be Kathy. Crudo by Olivia Laing is a hot and heavy look at post-Brexit Britain through the eyes of newlywed Kathy as she summers in Italy. It's Olivia Laing's fiction debut and is very much a self-assured interrogation of the times we live in. -- Nikesh Shukla ― Guardian, Best summer books Crudo by Olivia Laing review - mingling the personal and political. A fresh and funny autofiction about global anxiety and the struggle to commit channels the spirit of punk provocateur Kathy.
It’s the summer of and the whole world is falling apart. Olivia Laing radically rewires the novel in a brilliant, funny raw account of love in the apocalypse. A 21st century Goodbye to Berlin, Crudo charts the turbulent summer of in real time, from the perspective of a commitment-phobic artist who may or may not be Kathy Acker. From a Tuscan hotel for the super-rich to a Brexit-paralysed UK, Kathy spends the first summer of her forties trying to adjust to marriage. Olivia Laing’s “Crudo” Is Made from the Raw Material of the Present A first novel sits at the messy intersection of political turbulence and personal transformation. By Alexandra Schwartz. Olivia Laing is the author of five acclaimed works of nonfiction, including The Lonely City and Funny Weather. Her first novel, Crudo, won the James Tait Black Prize. The recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize in nonfiction, Laing lives in Suffolk, United Kingdom.
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