Chicken, the new novel by Toronto author and poet Lynn Crosbie, is a clamorous, electrifying kaleidoscope of sex and violence that veers toward sensory overload. But just when you think you can’t take any more, there are moments of desperate tenderness and melancholy that almost make you weep. Oh, and it’s funny too.

Toronto Star

Crosbie’s prose is seductive and deft, and imbued with yearning . . . Chicken sounds a clarion call for the necessity and potential of transgressive literature — the kind that allows difficult, conflicting truths to exist simultaneously. Crosbie defiantly acknowledges both the deviant and the sacred, the romantics and rebels that exist in all of us.

Quill and Quire

From the acclaimed author of Where Did You Sleep Last Night, an acidly funny, raw, and devastating love story of a decrepit, fallen film star and the young feminist filmmaker who revives his career.Set in disparate parts of Los Angeles, Chicken uproariously, grievously, relates the collision and inevitably ruinous paths of two incendiary figures. One is the once beautiful and very famous Parnell Wilde, a maverick actor arrogant in his disastrous fall. The other is Annabel Wrath, a much younger, idiosyncratic cult filmmaker with contradictory motives for seeking the older man out. The two are profoundly altered by their meeting and its harrowing denouement and manage to save each other from their paths of torment and dizzying spirals of decline. But when Parnell is offered the chance to perform in the sequel to Ultraviolence, the feature film that made him famous — and to work again with its brilliant but merciless director — he and Annabel are forced to wrestle with their fractured pasts as the extreme, fleeting, and dangerous world of fame threatens to divide them.
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An acidly funny, raw, and devastating love story of a decrepit, fallen film star and the young feminist filmmaker who revives his career.
Chicken, the new novel by Toronto author and poet Lynn Crosbie, is a clamorous, electrifying kaleidoscope of sex and violence that veers toward sensory overload. But just when you think you can’t take any more, there are moments of desperate tenderness and melancholy that almost make you weep. Oh, and it’s funny too.
Les mer
A baroque masterpiece!
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A COMPANION TO THE CRITICALLY LAUDED WHERE DID YOU SLEEP LAST NIGHT?: Lynn Crosbie’s last novel, Where Did You Sleep Last Night? was released to rave reviews (including a starred review in Publishers Weekly), and in many ways Chicken picks up the themes of love, power, desire, and devastation contributed to Where Did You Sleep Last Night?’s critical appeal. The LA setting and sensuous, dreamlike narrative is also very similar to Eve Babitz’s Sex and Rage, which was recently reissued to incredible fanfare. LYNN CROSBIE’S CULT FOLLOWING: Crosbie has an international fanbase of artists, authors, and readers who admire her writing and explosive personality. She writes in the confessional tradition of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath and has received praise from Miriam Toews, Heather O’Neill, and Douglas Coupland, among others. U.S. OUTREACH: Chicken will be available on Edelweiss and NetGalley and galleys will be given away at ALA Annual. We will also be doing a targeted IndieNext campaign for Chicken.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781487002862
Publisert
2018-10-18
Utgiver
Vendor
House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Vekt
381 gr
Høyde
203 mm
Bredde
133 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
304

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Lynn Crosbie is a cultural critic, author, and poet. She teaches at the Ontario College of Art and Design and the University of Toronto.