Lean Cat, Savage Cat
Autor Lauren J. Josephen Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 feb 2026
'The book that's been missing from my reading habits: classically glamourous, timelessly seductive' Torrey Peters
'An erotic spectacular of self-creation and spiralling disintegration' Olivia Laing
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Charli has finished art school and now has no idea what to do with her life. She's broke, disillusioned and her flatmates hate her. One night at a bar in Soho, however, everything changes when she first encounters the charismatic musician Alexander Geist. Androgynous, glamorously handsome, mysterious and just a little sinister, he feels something like a soul mate; and so when he heads off to Berlin, Charli follows.
There, at the centre of the city's febrile party scene, Charli and Alexander embark on their great project: to make Alexander into the biggest star since David Bowie. But Alexander is elusive, mercurial; and Charli is in over her head before she realises just how self-destructive her life has become under his spell.
A story of obsession and excess, doppelgängers and disassociation, fame and the terrible things we do to feel loved, Lean Cat, Savage Cat is an unforgettable novel from one of the most exciting writers at work today.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781526682116
ISBN-10: 1526682117
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1526682117
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Lean Cat, Savage Cat is the book that's been missing from my reading habits: classically glamourous, timelessly seductive, and painfully aware of the pitfalls of styling a life that cuts against the norm. Lauren J. Joseph is a wit and an assassin from one sentence to the next
A dense, humid dance floor of a book. I plunged feet-first into its hot, dark rooms, overspilling with scandal and sensuality. The language is lush and relentless - I inhaled every line
Even though I know better, Lauren J. Joseph's dangerously stylish and relentlessly sexy novel made me long for wild nights among Berlin's demi-mondaines: the glittering chaos, the glamour of bad decisions, the drugs and clubs and would-be Bowies with their would-be Romy Haags. I was completely delighted and impressed by the level of filth!
An erotic spectacular of self-creation and spiralling disintegration: a wunderkammer of spoiling promise that combines the mounting tension of The Talented Mr Ripley with the bleak, exquisite social comedy of Isherwood and Waugh, confirming the gimlet-eyed brilliance of Lauren J. Joseph
Joseph's prose is as sharp as her imagination, as swishy as a pussy-bow and ( when need be) as blunt as a thrown hammer. Her storyline goes for Goth-romance broke, reimagining and role-reversing the classic pairing of Trilby and Svengali amidst the after-dark club-culture of a Bowie-haunted, stimulant-addled Berlin. Erotic obsession, bad drugs , worse decisions - and enough eye-rollingly explicit and gender-fucked backroom action to get anybody's license revoked. What could possibly go wrong?
Hedonism as a cure or a blind for discovery - imagine Sally Bowles and Holly Golightly eating the Thin White Duke and Dorian Gray - Lauren J. Joseph, employing psychedelic powers, tracks our tears through the most fabulous, the most neurotic, the most glamorously disastrous cabaret
No one is doing it like Lauren, a cool old soul with a refreshingly original sensibility. With its sexy humor, relentless pacing, and enchanting balance of silly and sinister, Lean Cat, Savage Cat is (in appropriately cinematic terms) a screwball noir that deserves your full attention
Lauren J. Joseph's sharp wit and tantalizing storytelling carried me deep into Berlin's alluring and chaotic nightlife. A glamorous, seductive novel about obsession, self-destruction, and, ultimately, self-discovery
This book is a rare thing, a genuinely unmediated confrontation with desire. A book about the truths told by bodies and the lies told by brains
In this phantasmagoric folie à deux through a Berlin thick with historical echo and epic, decadent sex, Lauren J. Joseph gives a sharp new voice to the transsexual muse, on whose devotional labor the world of culture turns
Lauren J Joseph's writing goes from strength to strength. In this new novel she's created characters and scenes that are so vivid I thought I was hanging out with friends - voyeuristically judging their delusions and dramas! Lean Cat, Savage Cat is a timely story dabbling in fame and love, sex and queerness, and it is riveting. I raced through this book
A fever dream about all the rusted and rare pieces of ourselves that shake loose when carried away
Joseph's pitch-perfect voice propels Charli's story toward its bitter end, and her keen eye captures both the hardscrabble glamour of her characters' lives and the dark underside of a dream come true. This fierce and original narrative has the feel of a classic
An edgy, often viciously funny romp of a novel ... For readers in the know, a sure thrill; for the rest, a book that can make you slightly cooler just by reading it
Praise for At Certain Points We Touch: A moving portrait of youth, friendship and first love
An essential read
This vivid debut novel has a live current running through its pages ... An impressive debut with lines that linger with on the page
A smart, sparkling, twisting, millennial queer odyssey ... Lithe, perspicacious, melancholic and funny as hell
Beautifully written, smart, snappy story of queer love. Incredibly funny and moving
A stone-cold masterpiece, which in its scope, frankness and ambition reminds me of The Line of Beauty, retooled for the 21st century. By turns libidinous, hilarious, melancholy and full of feeling, it reveals Lauren John Joseph as a shocking new talent
Lauren John Joseph writes with such wit, glamour, and Style! I haven't read a book that so powerfully evokes what it's like to be a wild young artist among other wild young artists since the Bright Young Things were publishing
This is fabulous: screamingly funny, scandalously hot, opulent, deep - a devastating torch song of obsession and excess
Examines queer loss and survival elegantly, devastatingly, and critically incisive. Lauren John Joseph is a writer to reckon with. I'll read whatever they'll write next
Lauren's debut novel is so exciting. The writing is so fresh, funny and gripping - and carries the trademark wit that I have always loved from Lauren
A dense, humid dance floor of a book. I plunged feet-first into its hot, dark rooms, overspilling with scandal and sensuality. The language is lush and relentless - I inhaled every line
Even though I know better, Lauren J. Joseph's dangerously stylish and relentlessly sexy novel made me long for wild nights among Berlin's demi-mondaines: the glittering chaos, the glamour of bad decisions, the drugs and clubs and would-be Bowies with their would-be Romy Haags. I was completely delighted and impressed by the level of filth!
An erotic spectacular of self-creation and spiralling disintegration: a wunderkammer of spoiling promise that combines the mounting tension of The Talented Mr Ripley with the bleak, exquisite social comedy of Isherwood and Waugh, confirming the gimlet-eyed brilliance of Lauren J. Joseph
Joseph's prose is as sharp as her imagination, as swishy as a pussy-bow and ( when need be) as blunt as a thrown hammer. Her storyline goes for Goth-romance broke, reimagining and role-reversing the classic pairing of Trilby and Svengali amidst the after-dark club-culture of a Bowie-haunted, stimulant-addled Berlin. Erotic obsession, bad drugs , worse decisions - and enough eye-rollingly explicit and gender-fucked backroom action to get anybody's license revoked. What could possibly go wrong?
Hedonism as a cure or a blind for discovery - imagine Sally Bowles and Holly Golightly eating the Thin White Duke and Dorian Gray - Lauren J. Joseph, employing psychedelic powers, tracks our tears through the most fabulous, the most neurotic, the most glamorously disastrous cabaret
No one is doing it like Lauren, a cool old soul with a refreshingly original sensibility. With its sexy humor, relentless pacing, and enchanting balance of silly and sinister, Lean Cat, Savage Cat is (in appropriately cinematic terms) a screwball noir that deserves your full attention
Lauren J. Joseph's sharp wit and tantalizing storytelling carried me deep into Berlin's alluring and chaotic nightlife. A glamorous, seductive novel about obsession, self-destruction, and, ultimately, self-discovery
This book is a rare thing, a genuinely unmediated confrontation with desire. A book about the truths told by bodies and the lies told by brains
In this phantasmagoric folie à deux through a Berlin thick with historical echo and epic, decadent sex, Lauren J. Joseph gives a sharp new voice to the transsexual muse, on whose devotional labor the world of culture turns
Lauren J Joseph's writing goes from strength to strength. In this new novel she's created characters and scenes that are so vivid I thought I was hanging out with friends - voyeuristically judging their delusions and dramas! Lean Cat, Savage Cat is a timely story dabbling in fame and love, sex and queerness, and it is riveting. I raced through this book
A fever dream about all the rusted and rare pieces of ourselves that shake loose when carried away
Joseph's pitch-perfect voice propels Charli's story toward its bitter end, and her keen eye captures both the hardscrabble glamour of her characters' lives and the dark underside of a dream come true. This fierce and original narrative has the feel of a classic
An edgy, often viciously funny romp of a novel ... For readers in the know, a sure thrill; for the rest, a book that can make you slightly cooler just by reading it
Praise for At Certain Points We Touch: A moving portrait of youth, friendship and first love
An essential read
This vivid debut novel has a live current running through its pages ... An impressive debut with lines that linger with on the page
A smart, sparkling, twisting, millennial queer odyssey ... Lithe, perspicacious, melancholic and funny as hell
Beautifully written, smart, snappy story of queer love. Incredibly funny and moving
A stone-cold masterpiece, which in its scope, frankness and ambition reminds me of The Line of Beauty, retooled for the 21st century. By turns libidinous, hilarious, melancholy and full of feeling, it reveals Lauren John Joseph as a shocking new talent
Lauren John Joseph writes with such wit, glamour, and Style! I haven't read a book that so powerfully evokes what it's like to be a wild young artist among other wild young artists since the Bright Young Things were publishing
This is fabulous: screamingly funny, scandalously hot, opulent, deep - a devastating torch song of obsession and excess
Examines queer loss and survival elegantly, devastatingly, and critically incisive. Lauren John Joseph is a writer to reckon with. I'll read whatever they'll write next
Lauren's debut novel is so exciting. The writing is so fresh, funny and gripping - and carries the trademark wit that I have always loved from Lauren