{"product_id":"crudo-9780393357417","title":"Crudo","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Notable, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e, NPR, \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEsquire\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBustle\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of 2018\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Love may not be original, but this funny, fervent novel is.”—\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A single moment in modernity, deconstructed by the savagely entertaining, Acker-inspired voice of Laing.\" -- Paris Review Daily\u003cbr\u003e\"A narrative written with immense vitality and, miraculously, the lightest of touches.\" -- Deborah Levy - Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\"Written with bristling intelligence, this debut novel… pays homage to the iconoclastic author Kathy Acker, creating a pastiche of voices and identities.\" -- New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\"Breathless and gripping.… [\u003cem\u003eCrudo\u003c\/em\u003e] traps the first summer of Trump and Brexit like a fly in amber.… As a record, \u003cem\u003eCrudo\u003c\/em\u003e is perfect, and agonizing.\" -- NPR\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003cem\u003eCrudo\u003c\/em\u003e is] about the longing to escape our ossified selves—to become, if only for a moment or within the pages of a novel, someone wilder and more radically free. And in staging that longing so directly and so honestly, Olivia Laing makes \u003cem\u003eCrudo\u0026gt;\/em\u0026gt; her own.\"\u003c\/em\u003e -- New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eCrudo\u003c\/em\u003e could turn out to be a novel that we pick up years from now to remind ourselves how these times felt.\" -- Alexandra Schwartz - The New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eCrudo\u003c\/em\u003e seduces from the very first sentence. Laing as Acker is not a literary device—it is literary detonation.… \u003cem\u003eCrudo\u003c\/em\u003e is a hot, hot book.\" -- Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\"A pretzel twist of form and meaning.… Laing strikes some terrific chords in this novel.\" -- Dwight Garner - New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\"I don’t think I’ll ever forget the day I spent reading \u003cem\u003eCrudo\u003c\/em\u003e. I couldn’t put it down, and then it overwhelmed me so much I had to put it down, and then I had to pick it back up again. A beautiful, strange, intelligent novel.\" -- Sally Rooney - Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\"Laing’s experiment, and it’s a good one, is to describe the world—her world, between May 17 and September 23, 2017—as precisely as she can.… [\u003cem\u003eCrudo\u003c\/em\u003e is] a short, entirely readable, and lovably eccentric book.\" -- The Believer - Nick Hornby","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525156446551,"sku":"9780393357417","price":12.17,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393357417.jpg?v=1731859444","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/crudo-9780393357417","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}