TOP DOLL: Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot 2024
Autor Karen McCarthy Woolfen Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 ian 2024
'If you read one novel this year, let it be Top Doll. This is innovative, exquisitely crafted storytelling at its finest.' Malika Booker
When reclusive billionaire Huguette Clark dies age 104, she leaves behind a suite of New York apartments, a meticulously upkept California mansion, at least one Monet and her vast collection of antique dolls. Having barely been outside for 50 years, the elusive Clark spoke to few--in this highly unreliable, semi-fictional miniature epic, the dolls tell all.
Theirs is a tale that takes us from their lavish Park Avenue home back in time to the slave plantations of Virginia and the palaces of Imperial Japan via the addictive hedonism of 1930s queer LA.
Joyfully irreverent, Top Doll is a story of love, betrayal, Barbies and ultimately, what it means to be human.
'An astonishing combination of depth, compassion and beauty. A constant series of delicious surprises.' Leone Ross
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780349703466
ISBN-10: 0349703469
Pagini: 191
Dimensiuni: 134 x 214 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: John Murray Press
Colecția Dialogue Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0349703469
Pagini: 191
Dimensiuni: 134 x 214 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: John Murray Press
Colecția Dialogue Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Extraordinarily inventive, witty, moving and profound.
If you read one novel this year let it be Top Doll. This is innovative, exquisitely crafted storytelling at its finest.
An astonishing combination of depth, compassion and beauty. A constant series of delicious surprises.
By turns poetic, subversive and intensely absorbing, Top Doll is doing something unique and wildly imaginative within the form and structures of the novel. With Top Doll, Mccarthy Woolf firmly establishes herself as one of the most intellectually daring writers of our generation.
Wild, queer and unstoppably inventive . . . McCarthy Woolf possesses a rare, uncanny power in prose and lyric, staging a fantastic line-up of dolls with their personal baggage and societal wounds. This book is poignantly absurd and unsentimentally tender - a one-off.
An immersive, playful, multi-voiced time-travelling story . . . Both McCarthy Woolf's father and mine arrived in England from Jamaica on the same boat. This book extends our shared journey through the history of our lineages in ways that are beautiful, surprising, painful and yes, humorous. McCarthy Woolf has written a book that is truly worthy of the term "novel".
Karen McCarthy Woolf has invented a new species of novel - part prose, part poem, and part memoir. That it's almost all spoken by dolls is astonishing, but she's given each voice her full spectrum of powers as a poet; their voices are acerbic, hilarious, and deliciously alive! Every line is laced with wit, critiquing society and inequality. Top Doll is a virtuoso wonder.
A mad, mad, beautiful fiction début . . . The new perspective it gives on the human "flesh" world is its real genius. Poetic, peculiar, prophetic and revelatory - a work of art.
Top Doll is a strange picaresque, with its main players all trapped in one New York apartment . . . I've not read anything quite like it.
Undoubtedly smart, relentlessly irreverent and wryly humorous . . . pitch perfect
In this rich re-imagining, Clarke's inanimate companions are given voice. And what a voice it is - a cacophonous riot of sound swells these pages . . . McCarthy Woolf has, through the stylish inventiveness of her prose, breathed new life into this well worn trope, adding poignancy to the books 'stranger than fiction' tale of a heiress who preferred dolls to people.
'If you read one book this year let it be Top Doll.' Malika Booker
When reclusive billionaire Huguette Clark dies age 104, she leaves behind a suite of New York apartments, a meticulously kept California mansion, a Monet and her vast collection of antique dolls. Having barely been outside for 50 years, the elusive Clark spoke to few - in this highly unreliable, semi-fictional miniature epic, the dolls tell all.
Theirs is a tale that takes us from their lavish Park Avenue home back in time to the slave plantations of Virginia and the palaces of Imperial Japan via the addictive hedonism of 1930s queer LA.
Joyfully irreverent, Top Doll is a story of love, betrayal, Barbies and ultimately, what it means to be human.
'Wild, queer and unstoppably inventive . . . McCarthy Woolf possesses a rare, uncanny power in prose and lyric . . . This book is poignantly absurd and unsentimentally tender' Kit Fan
'An immersive, playful, multi-voiced time-travelling story. . . beautiful, surprising, painful and yes, humourous. Woolf has written a book that is truly worthy of the term "novel" Raymond Antrobus
If you read one novel this year let it be Top Doll. This is innovative, exquisitely crafted storytelling at its finest.
An astonishing combination of depth, compassion and beauty. A constant series of delicious surprises.
By turns poetic, subversive and intensely absorbing, Top Doll is doing something unique and wildly imaginative within the form and structures of the novel. With Top Doll, Mccarthy Woolf firmly establishes herself as one of the most intellectually daring writers of our generation.
Wild, queer and unstoppably inventive . . . McCarthy Woolf possesses a rare, uncanny power in prose and lyric, staging a fantastic line-up of dolls with their personal baggage and societal wounds. This book is poignantly absurd and unsentimentally tender - a one-off.
An immersive, playful, multi-voiced time-travelling story . . . Both McCarthy Woolf's father and mine arrived in England from Jamaica on the same boat. This book extends our shared journey through the history of our lineages in ways that are beautiful, surprising, painful and yes, humorous. McCarthy Woolf has written a book that is truly worthy of the term "novel".
Karen McCarthy Woolf has invented a new species of novel - part prose, part poem, and part memoir. That it's almost all spoken by dolls is astonishing, but she's given each voice her full spectrum of powers as a poet; their voices are acerbic, hilarious, and deliciously alive! Every line is laced with wit, critiquing society and inequality. Top Doll is a virtuoso wonder.
A mad, mad, beautiful fiction début . . . The new perspective it gives on the human "flesh" world is its real genius. Poetic, peculiar, prophetic and revelatory - a work of art.
Top Doll is a strange picaresque, with its main players all trapped in one New York apartment . . . I've not read anything quite like it.
Undoubtedly smart, relentlessly irreverent and wryly humorous . . . pitch perfect
In this rich re-imagining, Clarke's inanimate companions are given voice. And what a voice it is - a cacophonous riot of sound swells these pages . . . McCarthy Woolf has, through the stylish inventiveness of her prose, breathed new life into this well worn trope, adding poignancy to the books 'stranger than fiction' tale of a heiress who preferred dolls to people.
'If you read one book this year let it be Top Doll.' Malika Booker
When reclusive billionaire Huguette Clark dies age 104, she leaves behind a suite of New York apartments, a meticulously kept California mansion, a Monet and her vast collection of antique dolls. Having barely been outside for 50 years, the elusive Clark spoke to few - in this highly unreliable, semi-fictional miniature epic, the dolls tell all.
Theirs is a tale that takes us from their lavish Park Avenue home back in time to the slave plantations of Virginia and the palaces of Imperial Japan via the addictive hedonism of 1930s queer LA.
Joyfully irreverent, Top Doll is a story of love, betrayal, Barbies and ultimately, what it means to be human.
'Wild, queer and unstoppably inventive . . . McCarthy Woolf possesses a rare, uncanny power in prose and lyric . . . This book is poignantly absurd and unsentimentally tender' Kit Fan
'An immersive, playful, multi-voiced time-travelling story. . . beautiful, surprising, painful and yes, humourous. Woolf has written a book that is truly worthy of the term "novel" Raymond Antrobus