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Crudo
Reader Score
64%
64% of readers
recommend this book
Critic Reviews
Good
Based on 19 reviews on
It's the summer of 2017 and Kathy is getting married. Meanwhile, fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is heating up, and Trump is tweeting the world ever closer to nuclear war. 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 in sight.
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Sep 3rd, 2019
- Pages: 160
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.40in - 0.40in - 0.35lb
- EAN: 9780393357417
- Categories: • Literary• Women• Humorous - Dark Humor
About the Author
Laing, Olivia: - Olivia Laing is an internationally acclaimed writer and critic. She is the author of seven books, including The Lonely City, Funny Weather, and Everybody. Her first novel, Crudo, was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and won the 2019 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her work has been translated into twenty-one languages and in 2018 she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for nonfiction. She lives in Suffolk, England.
Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
A single moment in modernity, deconstructed by the savagely entertaining, Acker-inspired voice of Laing.-- "Paris Review Daily"
A narrative written with immense vitality and, miraculously, the lightest of touches.--Deborah Levy "Wall Street Journal"
Written with bristling intelligence, this debut novel... pays homage to the iconoclastic author Kathy Acker, creating a pastiche of voices and identities.-- "New York Times"
Breathless and gripping.... [Crudo] traps the first summer of Trump and Brexit like a fly in amber.... As a record, Crudo is perfect, and agonizing.-- "NPR"
[Crudo is] about the longing to escape our ossified selves--to become, if only for a moment or within the pages of a novel, someone wilder and more radically free. And in staging that longing so directly and so honestly, Olivia Laing makes Crudo her own.-- "New York Times Book Review"
Crudo could turn out to be a novel that we pick up years from now to remind ourselves how these times felt.--Alexandra Schwartz "The New Yorker"
Crudo seduces from the very first sentence. Laing as Acker is not a literary device--it is literary detonation.... Crudo is a hot, hot book.-- "Guardian"
A pretzel twist of form and meaning.... Laing strikes some terrific chords in this novel.--Dwight Garner "New York Times"
I don't think I'll ever forget the day I spent reading Crudo. I couldn't put it down, and then it overwhelmed me so much I had to put it down, and then I had to pick it back up again. A beautiful, strange, intelligent novel.--Sally Rooney "Guardian"
Laing's experiment, and it's a good one, is to describe the world--her world, between May 17 and September 23, 2017--as precisely as she can.... [Crudo is] a short, entirely readable, and lovably eccentric book.--The Believer "Nick Hornby"