Boy Parts: From the author of PENANCE
Apr 2023 · Faber & Faber
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A GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST 2023
'Hallucinogenic, electric and sharp.' JESSICA ANDREWS
'Will make most readers howl with laughter and/or shut their eyes in horror.' GUARDIAN
'A carnival funhouse ride: terrifying, feverish, hilarious.' JULIA ARMFIELD
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.
'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
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:
'A dark, funny, nasty book. Brilliantly written, annoyingly good.' 5* reader review
'I am obsessed.' 5* reader review
'Both shocking and darkly funny, this razor-sharp debut is unlike anything I've read before.' 5* reader review
'I loved this, properly loved it!!' 5* reader review
'Left me both in awe and totally disturbed. Wow.' 5* reader review
'Hallucinogenic, electric and sharp.' JESSICA ANDREWS
'Will make most readers howl with laughter and/or shut their eyes in horror.' GUARDIAN
'A carnival funhouse ride: terrifying, feverish, hilarious.' JULIA ARMFIELD
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.
'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
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:
'A dark, funny, nasty book. Brilliantly written, annoyingly good.' 5* reader review
'I am obsessed.' 5* reader review
'Both shocking and darkly funny, this razor-sharp debut is unlike anything I've read before.' 5* reader review
'I loved this, properly loved it!!' 5* reader review
'Left me both in awe and totally disturbed. Wow.' 5* reader review
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3.7
6 reviews
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February 12, 2024
The writing style is very generalized and not that literary appealing, but the story itself has some interesting aspects for example how Irinas mind works
Martin Smith
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June 11, 2023
an incredible novel. it reads like a cross between American Psycho and Trainspotting, but set in Newcastle. superb.
Bernd Bauer
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March 18, 2024
Reads like a teenage diary with some feminist touches. No plot. Lame.
About the author
Eliza Clark has relocated from her native Newcastle back to London, where she previously attended Chelsea College of Art. In 2018, she received a grant from New Writing North's 'Young Writers' Talent Fund'. Her debut novel, Boy Parts, was released by Influx Press in July 2020, and it has since been Blackwell's Fiction Book of the Year. In 2022, Eliza was chosen as a finalist for the Women's Prize Futures Award for writers under thirty-five, and she was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2023.
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