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Loading... Boy Parts (2020)by Eliza Clark
   No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) AlisonSakai | Apr 21, 2024 |   )1  KitKat101 | Sep 13, 2023 | ) KitKat101 | Sep 13, 2023 | Did you ever have that one friend when you were in your twenties who seemed to have it all. Talented, beautiful, single-minded, and did not give a shit what anyone else thought of her? Boy Parts tells the story of Irina, a photographer who takes explicit fetish photographs of the men she scouts on the streets of Newcastle. She picks normal looking men, men who others wouldn’t find attractive enough to photograph. She uses her body and sexuality to get what she wants and manipulates the people around her (her best friend included) into giving it to her along with the power over them that she craves. In the opening pages we meet her hungover and struggling through a day at her part-time bar job when she is assaulted by the mother of one of the men she has photographed (who turns out not to be as old as he said)... things don’t get better from there. Clarke weaves a very careful spell with Irina. She is harsh, difficult to be around and self centered. I instantly liked her but as the story unfolded it became difficult to trust what Irina is telling us. Brutal attacks and memories are presented in the hazy half light of drugs, alcohol and a lack of evidence to the point that we cannot tell what is real or what is imagined. In preparing for an upcoming exhibition Irina goes back through her archive and in doing so gives us a timeline - of sorts - to her spiraling memories and mental health. We begin to question everything. A very dark, difficult and gory read at time so beware if that is not your thing but a remarkable debut novel from a voice to watch in the future. (  )1 rosienotrose | Jul 11, 2023 |  )1 apwidom | Apr 13, 2023 | no reviews | add a review
An incendiary debut novel from a brash new talent-a pitch-black comedy, both shocking and hilarious, which fearlessly explores sexuality and gender roles in the twenty-first century. "Hallucinogenic, electric and sharp, Boy Parts is a whirlwind exploration of gender, class, and power."-Jessica Andrews, author of Saltwater Exiled from the art world and on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. But her talent has not gone unnoticed, and Irina is invited to display her work at a fashionable London gallery. It is a chance to revive her career and escape from the rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema she's fallen into. Yet the news instead triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centered around Irina's consuming relationship with her best friend, and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention. . . . No library descriptions found. |
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