{"product_id":"top-doll-9780349703459","title":"TOP DOLL","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Extraordinarily inventive, witty, moving and profound.'' \u003c\/b\u003eBernardine Evaristo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''If you read one novel this year, let it be \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTop Doll\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is innovative, exquisitely crafted storytelling at its finest.''\u003c\/b\u003e Malika Booker \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheirs 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoyfully irreverent, \u003ci\u003eTop Doll\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of love, betrayal, Barbies and ultimately, what it means to be human.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''An \u003cb\u003eastonishing combination of depth, compassion and beauty\u003c\/b\u003e. A constant series of delicious surprises.'' Leone Ross \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eAn Aviary of Small Birds\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Beautiful, painful, pitch-perfect  . . . McCarthy Woolf''s tuning fork always rings true.'' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''I loved Karen McCarthy Woolf''s technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak.'' Maggie Gee, \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eSeasonal Disturbances\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A strange and stunning collection from a true writer. Vulnerable, hilarious and wise.'' Warsan Shire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''An unclassifiable book, revolutionary in its engagement with form, stunning in its intersectional politics, and an extraordinary achievement . . . It will break you, in a good way.'' Poetry School Books of the Year 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExtraordinarily inventive, witty, moving and profound\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Bernardine Evaristo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf you read one novel this year let it be \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTop Doll\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eThis is \u003cb\u003einnovative, exquisitely crafted storytelling at its finest.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Malika Booker\u003cbr\u003eAn \u003cb\u003eastonishing combination of depth, compassion and beauty\u003c\/b\u003e. A constant series of delicious surprises. -- Leone Ross\u003cbr\u003eBy turns poetic, subversive and intensely absorbing, \u003ci\u003eTop Doll\u003c\/i\u003e is doing something unique and wildly imaginative within the form and structures of the novel. \u003cb\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eTop Doll\u003c\/i\u003e, Mccarthy Woolf firmly establishes herself as one of the most intellectually daring writers of our generation.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Mona Arshi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWild, queer and unstoppably inventive\u003c\/b\u003e . . . \u003cb\u003eMcCarthy Woolf possesses a rare, uncanny power in prose and lyric,\u003c\/b\u003e staging a fantastic line-up of dolls with their personal baggage and societal wounds. \u003cb\u003eThis book is poignantly absurd and unsentimentally tender - a one-off.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Kit Fan, author of THE INK CLOUD READER and DIAMOND HILL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn immersive, playful, multi-voiced time-travelling story \u003c\/b\u003e. . . 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\u003cb\u003e beautiful, surprising, painful and yes, humorous. McCarthy Woolf has written a book that is truly worthy of the term \"novel\"\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Raymond Antrobus\u003cbr\u003eKaren 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! \u003cb\u003eEvery line is laced with wit, critiquing society and inequality. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTop Doll\u003c\/i\u003e is a virtuoso wonder.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Pascale Petit\u003cbr\u003eA mad, mad, beautiful fiction début . . . The new perspective it gives on the human \"flesh\" world is its real genius. \u003cb\u003ePoetic, peculiar, prophetic and revelatory\u003c\/b\u003e - a work of art. -- Nii Parkes, author of TAIL OF THE BLUE BIRD\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTop Doll\u003c\/i\u003e is a strange picaresque, with its main players all trapped in one New York apartment . . . I've not read anything quite like it. * The Sunday Telegraph, 4-star review *\u003cbr\u003eUndoubtedly \u003cb\u003esmart\u003c\/b\u003e, relentlessly\u003cb\u003e irreverent\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003ewryly \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ehumorous\u003c\/b\u003e . . . \u003cb\u003epitch perfect\u003c\/b\u003e * Sunday Business Post *","brand":"Dialogue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733691904343,"sku":"9780349703459","price":16.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/top-doll-9780349703459","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}