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Paul takes the form of a mortal girl : a novel

Title
Paul takes the form of a mortal girl : a novel / Andrea Lawlor.
Author
Lawlor, Andrea.
Publication
  • Chicago : Rescue Press, [2017]
  • ©2017

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354 pages; 19 cm
Summary
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 flâneur 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.
Series Statement
Open prose series
Subject
  • Shapeshifting > Fiction
  • Gay culture > 20th century > Fiction
  • Lesbian culture > 20th century > Fiction
  • Riot grrrl movement > Fiction
Genre/Form
Gay fiction.
Call Number
JFC 18-124
ISBN
  • 9780986086991
  • 0986086991
OCLC
1002129413
Author
Lawlor, Andrea.
Title
Paul takes the form of a mortal girl : a novel / Andrea Lawlor.
Publisher
Chicago : Rescue Press, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Open prose series
Research Call Number
JFC 18-124
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