- Title:
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Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl
- Written by:
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Andrea Lawlor
- Read by:
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Dani Martineck
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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8
- Duration:
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9 hours 29 minutes
- Published:
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May 28 2019
- Available Date:
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May 28 2019
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781529019889
- Genres:
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Fiction; Gay & Lesbian Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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Price
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Transposing Virginia Woolf’s Orlando to 90s San Francisco, this novel of transgender metamorphosis is a wild, sexy, funny and moving story of living on the edge.
It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines and is a flaneur with a rich dating life. But Paul's also got a secret: he's a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot Grrrl to leather cub, Paul transforms his body and his gender at will as he crosses the country – a journey and adventure through the deep queer archives of struggle and pleasure.
Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl is a riotous, razor-sharp bildungsroman whose hero/ine wends his/her way through a world gutted by loss, pulsing with music and opening into an array of intimacy and connections.
'Groundbreaking ... A fresh novel that elevates questions of sexual identity and intimacy.'
Kirkus Reviews, starred
'Bends genre as well as gender ...'
The New York Times
'A fantasy spin on all-too-pertinent issues of gender and sex.'
Harper's Bazaar