Effortlessly swaying from darkly disturbing to riotously funny, Eliza Clark’s clever and fearless novel about a photographer hunting for average-looking men for explicit shots is a perceptive window into sexual taboos and gender roles in the twenty-first century.
A Granta Best of Young Bristish Novelists 2023
Irina is in a rut. She obsessively takes explicit photographs of average-looking men she scouts from the streets of Newcastle while her dead-end bar job slips away; she's more interested in drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema. When she's offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery which promises to revive her career in the art world, it should feel like an escape. But the news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, drawing in her obsessive best friend and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention . . .
Boy Parts is the incendiary debut novel from Eliza Clark, a pitch-black comedy both shocking and hilarious, fearlessly exploring the taboos of sexuality and gender roles in the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571384730
Number of pages: 304
Weight: 249 g
Dimensions: 196 x 126 x 20 mm
Edition: Main
'Smart, stylish, and very funny.' - Lara Williams'Boundaries are for breaking and if anyone can crash through and reinterpret the fear of our time, Eliza Clark can.' - Mslexia
Boy Parts exists in the space we are in right now. It's highly referential. Our narrator, Irina, obsessively takes sexually explicit photographs of men she scouts from the likes of Tesco. She stalks her best... More
Best book I've read so far this year. Dark, disturbing, thought provoking and, at times, really funny. A brilliant thrill ride of a book, reminded me of American Psycho with a dash of Killing Eve. I loved it
I was blown away by Boy Parts!
Irina stalks the streets of Newcastle, scouting for new models for her photography. At the same time that she gets a chance to showcase her career's work, she becomes fixated on a...
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