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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3612.A94472 P49 2017g | Off-site |
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- Description
- 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 flãaneur 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
- Uniform Title
- Open prose series.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Lesbian fiction.
- ISBN
- 9780986086991
- 0986086991
- OCLC
- on1002129413
- 1002129413
- SCSB-8946957
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries