Paul takes the form of a mortal girl : a novel /
It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul's also got a secret. He's a shapeshifter. Oscillating...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
Rescue Press,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Open prose series.
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| Summary: | It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul's also got a secret. He's a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot Grrrl to leather cub, Women's Studies major to trade, Paul transforms his body at will in a series of adventures that take him from Iowa City to Boystown to Provincetown and finally to San Francisco, a journey through the deep queer archives of struggle and pleasure. Andrea Lawlor's debut novel offers a speculative history of early '90s identity politics during the heyday of ACT UP and Queer Nation. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is a riotous, razor-sharp bildungsroman whose hero/ine wends his way through a world gutted by loss, pulsing with music and opening into an array of intimacy and connections. |
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| Physical Description: | 354 pages ; 19 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780986086991 0986086991 |