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Gaudy Bauble by Isabel Waidner (ISBN: 9781999924522)
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by Isabel Waidner
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"I'm besotted with this beguiling, hilarious, rollocking, language-metamorphosing novel. The future of the queer avant-garde is safe with Isabel Waidner."
Olivia Laing
Gaudy Bauble stages a glittering world populated by GoldSeXUal StatuEttes, anti-drag kings, Gilbert-&-George-like lesbians, maverick detectives, a transgender army equipped with question-mark-shaped helmets, and birds who have dyke written all over them. Everyone interferes with the plot. No one is in control of the plot. Surprises happen as a matter of course: A faux research process produces actual results. Hundreds of lipstick marks reanimate a dying body. And the Deadwood-to-Dynamo Audience Prize goes to whoever turns deadestwood into dynamost.
Gaudy Bauble stages what happens when the disenfranchised are calling the shots. Riff-raff are running the show and they are making a difference.Details
- Title Gaudy Bauble
- Author Isabel Waidner
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 108
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dostoyevsky Wannabe
- ISBN 9781999924522 / 1999924525
- Weight 0.27 lbs (0.12 kg)
- Dimensions 7.99 x 5 x 0.26 in (20.29 x 12.70 x 0.66 cm)
About the author
Isabel Waidner is a writer and cultural theorist. She is the author of three books of innovative fiction, most recently Gaudy Bauble (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2017), which is currently longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for "hardcore literary fiction and gorgeous prose," sponsored by the Times Literary Supplement. Her articles and short fictions have appeared or are forthcoming in journals including 3: AM, Berfrois, Configurations, The Happy Hypocrite, The Quietus and Minor Literature[s]. As part of the indie band Klang, Waidner released records on UK labels Rough Trade (2003) and Blast First (2004). She is the editor of Liberating the Canon: An Anthology of Innovative Writing (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2018), and she is a lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Roehampton University, London, UK. @isabelwaidne
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