Bibliograph

Paul takes the form of a mortal girl, a novel, Andrea Lawlor

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Paul takes the form of a mortal girl, a novel, Andrea Lawlor

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Paul takes the form of a mortal girl

Oclc number

1002129413

Responsibility statement

Andrea Lawlor

Series statement

Open prose series

Sub title

a novel

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

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