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Nothing but my body / Tilly Lawless.
Van Pelt Library PR9619.4.L3845 N68 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lawless, Tilly, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex workers--Fiction.
- Sex workers.
- Infatuation--Fiction.
- Infatuation.
- Self-actualization (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Self-actualization (Psychology).
- Friendship--Fiction.
- Friendship.
- Australian fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Erotic fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 243 pages ; 24 cm
- regular print
- Place of Publication:
- Crows Nest NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2021.
- Summary:
- Nothing But My Body is an eight-day journey through the mind of a young woman, a queer sex worker in Australia, as she navigates breakups and infatuation across just over a year. The unnamed narrator's voice is both fierce and vulnerable, defiant and tender, as she explores the interplay between her external and internal world, and the fluctuations of her emotions as love affairs intensify and wane. Her loneliness is assuaged by her beloved chosen family-her friends-and by the beauty of the natural world. Set during the cataclysmic bushfire season of 2019 and into the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, sex work is the constant backdrop of the story as it moves between Sydney, Berlin, Orange and Bellingen. The beauty of the writing and the moving and deeply engaging sense of compassion that threads through this remarkable novel give true meaning to the concepts of inclusivity and community in surprising and original ways.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781761065149
- 1761065149
- OCLC:
- 1249629863
- Publisher Number:
- 99988703556
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