Availability
Availability Label | Location | Shelfmark | Availability | Reservations |
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Central Branch | Fiction Clark | On loan until: 02/Apr/24 |
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Sydenham Branch | Fiction Clark | Copies Available |
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Comments and Reviews
Summary & Details
Full Record Details Table
Title Statement | Boy parts / Eliza Clark. |
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Author | Clark, Eliza, 1994- |
Publication | New York: Harper Perennial,2023.©2022 |
Edition | First Harper Perennial edition. |
Extent of Item | 292 pages ; |
ISBN | 9780063328921 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr07050607 |
General Notes | Originally published: London : Influx Press, 2020. |
Summary | "An incendiary debut novel from a brash new talent--a pitch-black comedy, both shocking and hilarious, which fearlessly explores sexuality and gender roles in the twenty-first century. Exiled from the art world and on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. But her talent has not gone unnoticed, and Irina is invited to display her work at a fashionable London gallery. It is a chance to revive her career and escape from the rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema she's fallen into. Yet the news instead triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centered around Irina's consuming relationship with her best friend, and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention ... "-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Compulsive behavior--Fiction |
Interpersonal relations--Fiction | |
Man-woman relationships--Fiction | |
Photographers' models--Fiction | |
Sex differences--Fiction | |
Sex role--Fiction | |
Sex--Fiction | |
Women photographers--Fiction--England | |
By Genre | Black humor |
Psychological fiction | |
Novels |