- Title:
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Crudo
- Written by:
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Olivia Laing
- Read by:
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Olivia Laing
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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3
- Duration:
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3 hours 39 minutes
- Published:
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August 28 2018
- Available Date:
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August 28 2018
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781509899692
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary; Contemporary Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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Bestselling author
A blisteringly funny and remarkably tender debut novel from Olivia Laing, one of the finest non-fiction writers of her generation.
Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It’s the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart.
From a Tuscan hotel for the super-rich to a Brexit-paralysed UK, Kathy spends the first summer of her 40s trying to adjust to making a lifelong commitment just as Trump is tweeting the world into nuclear war. But it’s not only Kathy who’s changing. Political, social and natural landscapes are all in peril. Fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is hotting up. Is it really worth learning to love when the end of the world is nigh? And how do you make art, let alone a life, when one rogue tweet could end it all?
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 2017, from the perspective of a commitment-phobic peripatetic artist who may or may not be Kathy Acker ...
'[Laing] is a brave writer whose books, in their different ways, open up fundamental questions about life and art'
The Telegraph
'She writes with lyrical clarity, empathy, and a knack for taking a wandering, edgy path, stretching themes (and genres), while never losing an underlying urgency ...'
Evening Standard
'I am in awe of Olivia Laing's insights, braininess, and that something that feels like recklessness until it lands.'
Peter Carey