- English literature
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...
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Contemporary, grave, classical in form and prestige.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Eliza Clark
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, Audible Studios on Brilliance, Harper Perennial
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571384730
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