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Luster
Luster
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Luster is a taut, sharp, funny book about being young now. It is brutal and brilliant, and has won the Dylan Thomas Prize and been shortlisted for the British Book Awards Fiction Debut of the Year and the Women's Prize for Fiction. Edie is just trying to survive, but she meets Eric, a white middle-aged archivist with a suburban family. The book is razor-sharp, provocatively page-turning, and surprisingly tender, and has been named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by many publications.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 06 January 2022
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Luster is a taut, sharp, and funny book about being young now. It is brutal – and brilliant.
Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize, Luster was shortlisted for the British Book Awards Fiction Debut of the Year and Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.
Edie is just trying to survive. She is messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office, is sleeping with all the wrong men, and has failed at the only thing that meant anything to her, painting. No one seems to care that she doesn't really know what she is doing with her life beyond looking for her next hook-up.
And then she meets Eric, a white middle-aged archivist with a suburban family, including a wife who has sort-of-agreed to an open marriage and an adopted black daughter who doesn't have a single person in her life who can show her how to do her hair. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscape of sexual and racial politics as a young black woman wasn't already hard enough, with nowhere else left to go, Edie finds herself falling head-first into Eric's home and family.
Luster is razor-sharp, provocatively page-turning, and surprisingly tender. It is a painfully funny debut about what it means to be young now.
"A book of pure fineness, exceptional," – Diana Evans, Guardian
"A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR," – Guardian, New York Times, New Yorker, Boston Globe, Literary Hub, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times, Glamour, Time, Good Housekeeping, InStyle, NPR, O Magazine, Buzzfeed, Electric Literature, Town & Country, Wired, New Statesman, Vox, Shelf Awareness, i-D, BookPage, and more.
One of Barack Obama's Favourite Books of the Year.
Weight: 178g
Dimension: 130 x 197 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529036008
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