Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
A Novel
Chicago : Rescue Press, [2017]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 354 pages ; 19 cm.
Its 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 Pauls also got a secret: hes a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot Grrrl to leather cub, Womens 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 Franciscoa journey through the deep queer archives of struggle and pleasure. Andrea Lawlors 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: Open prose series.
Subjects:
Shapeshifting -- Fiction.
Gay culture -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Lesbian culture -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Riot grrrl movement -- Fiction.
Shapeshifting -- Fiction.
Gay culture -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Lesbian culture -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Riot grrrl movement -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780986086991
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Lawlor | Main (Downtown) | Display - First Level, Fiction | Out (Due: 5/17/2024) |