Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Author(s): Andrea Lawlor

General

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 flaneur 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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General Fields

  • : 9781529009996
  • : Pan Macmillan
  • : Picador
  • : December 2018
  • : ---length:- '20.8'width:- '13.5'units:- Centimeters
  • : May 2019
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Andrea Lawlor
  • : Paperback
  • : 1905
  • : English
  • : near fine
  • : 320