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Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor (2019, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-10052556618X

ISBN-139780525566182

eBay Product ID (ePID)19038659310

Product Key Features

Book TitlePaul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicFantasy / General, Magical Realism, Lgbt / Gay, Literary, Coming of Age

Publication Year2019

GenreFiction

AuthorAndrea Lawlor

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight8.8 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2019-285169

Reviews"Restless, muscular, and playful.... A tight satisfying masterpiece." --Eileen Myles, author of Evolution "Fast-paced and cheeky...a touchingly sweet-hearted and deeply cool book." --Michelle Tea, author of Black Wave "I love this book in all it's ecstasy, wit, and hilarity....As rare as it is contagious." --Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts "Joyous and ever-changing, whip-smart and brilliantly perverse, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is quite simply one of the most exciting--and one of the most fun--novels of the decade." --Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You "Mixes pop culture, gender theory, and smut, but [Lawlor's] greatest achievement is that Paul is no mere symbol but a vibrantly yearning being. " --The New Yorker "Bends genre as well as gender....Difficult to quote in a family newspaper." -- The New York Times "A fantasy spin an all-too-pertinent issues of gender and sex." --Harper's Bazaar "If anyone has ever endeavored to reclaim the canonical--specifically Ovid and Gertrude Stein--not to queer it, but to genderqueer it, it is Lawlor." --The Paris Review "Endlessly inventive....Magic." --Kaitlyn Greenidge, Lenny Letter "Intoxicatingly rousing.... A timelessly contemporary exposé of an antihero with a heart made of fire." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "Groundbreaking.... A fresh novel that elevates questions of sexual identity and intimacy." -- Kirkus (starred review) "I'm loving Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl ....It's pulling at my little queer midwestern heartstrings." -- Danez Smith, The Guardian

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal813/.6

Synopsis"In these irreverent pages, a shapeshifter gets a crash course in gender and sexuality by inhabiting both sides of the binary and arriving precisely somewhere in the middle." --O, The Oprah Magazine "HOT" (Maggie Nelson) - "TIGHT" (Eileen Myles) - "DEEP" (Michelle Tea) 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 crossed 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., "HOT" --Maggie Nelson "TIGHT" --Eileen Myles "DEEP" --Michelle Tea 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 crossed 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., "In these irreverent pages, a shapeshifter gets a crash course in gender and sexuality by inhabiting both sides of the binary and arriving precisely somewhere in the middle." --O, The Oprah Magazine "HOT" (Maggie Nelson) * "TIGHT" (Eileen Myles) * "DEEP" (Michelle Tea) A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century 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 crossed 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3612.A9329725P38