Judith
4. jun. 2022
Beautiful book. Disturbing but still heartfelt. The narrator does tell the tale with little emotion. Quite detached. But maybe that’s intentional.
‘Ella Baxter’s debut novel is drenched in sex and death . . . there’s also much love . . . An intense, viscerally affecting book, with the quotient of tenderness to violence in an equal scale.’ - Sydney Morning Herald
Amelia is no stranger to sex and death. Her job in her family’s funeral parlour, doing make-up on the dead, might be unusual, but she’s good at it. Life and warmth comes from the men she meets online – combining with someone else’s body at night in order to become something else, at least for a while.
But when a sudden loss severs her ties with someone she loves, Amelia sets off on a seventy-two-hour mission to outrun her grief – skipping out on the funeral, running away to stay with her father in Tasmania and experimenting on the local BDSM scene. There she learns more about sex, death, grief, and the different ways pain works its way through the body.
It takes two fathers, a bruising encounter with a stranger and recognition of her own body’s limits to bring Amelia back to herself.
Deadpan, wise and heartbreakingly funny, Ella Baxter’s New Animal is a stunning debut.
© 2022 Picador (Lydbok): 9781529074833
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 17. februar 2022
‘Ella Baxter’s debut novel is drenched in sex and death . . . there’s also much love . . . An intense, viscerally affecting book, with the quotient of tenderness to violence in an equal scale.’ - Sydney Morning Herald
Amelia is no stranger to sex and death. Her job in her family’s funeral parlour, doing make-up on the dead, might be unusual, but she’s good at it. Life and warmth comes from the men she meets online – combining with someone else’s body at night in order to become something else, at least for a while.
But when a sudden loss severs her ties with someone she loves, Amelia sets off on a seventy-two-hour mission to outrun her grief – skipping out on the funeral, running away to stay with her father in Tasmania and experimenting on the local BDSM scene. There she learns more about sex, death, grief, and the different ways pain works its way through the body.
It takes two fathers, a bruising encounter with a stranger and recognition of her own body’s limits to bring Amelia back to herself.
Deadpan, wise and heartbreakingly funny, Ella Baxter’s New Animal is a stunning debut.
© 2022 Picador (Lydbok): 9781529074833
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 17. februar 2022
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Judith
4. jun. 2022
Beautiful book. Disturbing but still heartfelt. The narrator does tell the tale with little emotion. Quite detached. But maybe that’s intentional.
Ivona
20. jan. 2023
Książka o żałobie ale tak dziwnie napisana i bez emocji przeczytana że myślałam nad przerwaniem jej kilka razy i długo mi zabierał powrót. Także przerywane czytanie tez wpłynęło na ocenę.
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Trist
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Judith
4. jun. 2022
Beautiful book. Disturbing but still heartfelt. The narrator does tell the tale with little emotion. Quite detached. But maybe that’s intentional.
Ivona
20. jan. 2023
Książka o żałobie ale tak dziwnie napisana i bez emocji przeczytana że myślałam nad przerwaniem jej kilka razy i długo mi zabierał powrót. Także przerywane czytanie tez wpłynęło na ocenę.
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