SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE NOTA BENE PRIZE 2024The radical, joyful followup to the Goldsmiths Prizewinning Sterling Karat Gold.This is the story of Corey Fah, a writer on the cusp of a windfall, courtesy of the Social Evils prize committee, for whom the actual gong and with it the prize money remains tantalizingly out of reach.Neon beige, with UFOlike qualities, the elusive trophy leads Corey, with partner Drew and surprise eightlegged companion Bambi Pavok, on a spectacular detour through their childhood in the Forest via an unlikely stint on reality TV. Navigating those twin horrors, through wormholes and time loops, Corey learns the hard way the difference between a prize and a gift.Both radiant and revolutionary, Isabel Waidners fiction gleefully takes a hammer to false binaries, boundaries and borders, turning walls into bridges and words into wings. Fierce, fluid and funny, they free us to imagine another way of being.This is a novel about coming into ones own, the labour of love, the tendency of history to repeat itself and the pitfalls of social mobility. Its about watching TV with your lover.A headspinning, mindbending roller coaster of fun, horror, and subversion. I love it Kamila Shamsie Reading Waidner is like plugging into an electric socket of language and ideas Guardian

Binding: Hardback;160 pages; Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Classification: FA; Weight: 362 g; Dimensions: 137 x 206 x 20

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