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Underrated Pick #5: Boy Parts by Eliza Clark (2020)
Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle.
Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina’s relationship with her obsessive best friend, and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention…
Boy Parts is the incendiary debut novel from Eliza Clark, a pitch-black comedy both shocking and hilarious, fearlessly exploring the taboo regions of sexuality and gender roles in the twenty-first century.
Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina’s relationship with her obsessive best friend, and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention…
Boy Parts is the incendiary debut novel from Eliza Clark, a pitch-black comedy both shocking and hilarious, fearlessly exploring the taboo regions of sexuality and gender roles in the twenty-first century.
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304 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780063328938
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publication date: 23 May 2023
fiction
contemporary
horror
lgbtqia+
literary
dark
tense
medium-paced
fiction
contemporary
horror
lgbtqia+
literary
dark
tense
medium-paced
304 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780063328938
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publication date: 23 May 2023
fiction
contemporary
horror
lgbtqia+
literary
dark
tense
medium-paced
fiction
contemporary
horror
lgbtqia+
literary
dark
tense
medium-paced
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