Corey Fah Does Social Mobility (Black Britain: Writing Back) - Hardcover

Waidner, Isabel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241632536 ISBN 13: 9780241632536

Verlag: Hamish Hamilton, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2024
LONGLISTED FOR THE NOTA BENE PRIZE 2024

The radical, joyful follow-up to the Goldsmiths Prize-winning Sterling Karat Gold.

This is the story of Corey Fah, a writer on the cusp of a windfall, courtesy of the Social Evils prize committee, for whom the actual gong - and with it the prize money - remains tantalizingly out of reach.

Neon beige, with UFO-like qualities, the elusive trophy leads Corey, with partner Drew and surprise eight-legged companion Bambi Pavok, on a spectacular detour through their childhood in the Forest - via an unlikely stint on reality TV. Navigating those twin horrors, through wormholes and time loops, Corey learns - the hard way - the difference between a prize and a gift.

Both radiant and revolutionary, Isabel Waidner's fiction gleefully takes a hammer to false binaries, boundaries and borders, turning walls into bridges and words into wings. Fierce, fluid and funny, they free us to imagine another way of being.

This is a novel about coming into one's own, the labour of love, the tendency of history to repeat itself and the pitfalls of social mobility. It's about watching TV with your lover.

'A head-spinning, mind-bending roller coaster of fun, horror, and subversion. I love it' Kamila Shamsie

'Reading Waidner is like plugging into an electric socket of language and ideas' Guardian

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Isabel Waidner is a writer based in London. They are the author of Corey Fah Does Social Mobility, Sterling Karat Gold, We Are Made of Diamond Stuff and Gaudy Bauble. They are the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2021 and were shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize in 2019, the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction in 2022 and the Republic of Consciousness Prize in 2018, 2020 and 2022. They are a co-founder of the event series Queers Read This at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and they are an academic in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Hamish Hamilton
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0241632536
• ISBN 13: 9780241632536
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
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