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.
Granta Best of Young British Novelists 2023
Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina's relationship with 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 taboo regions of sexuality and gender roles in the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Influx Press
ISBN: 9781910312636
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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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