num_pages: 160
description: A brilliant funny and emphatically raw novel of love on the brink of the apocalypse from the acclaimed author of The Lonely City.She had no idea what to do with love she experienced it as invasion as the prelude to loss and pain she really didnt have a clue.Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. Its the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart. Fast-paced and frantic Crudo unfolds in real time from the full-throttle perspective of a commitment-phobic artist who may or may not be Kathy Acker.From a Tuscan hotel for the superrich to a Brexit-paralyzed United Kingdom Kathy spends the first summer of her forties adjusting to the idea of a lifelong commitment. But its not only Kathy whos changing. Fascism is on the rise truth is dead the planet is heating up and Trump is tweeting the world ever-closer to nuclear war. How do you make art let alone a life when one rogue tweet could end it all?In Crudo her first work of fiction Olivia Laing radically rewires the novel with a fierce compassionate account of learning to love when the end of the world seems near.
language: English
title: Crudo
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company