![]() ![]() ![]() It’s reminiscent of a Placebo album cover in an indie-noir sort of way, and it stands as an interesting contrast to the trend in recent years of marketing subversive literary fiction by young women with overtly feminine imagery (for example, Ottessa Moshfegh’s 2015 novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation, which uses an eighteenth century portrait of a bored-looking upper class woman on its cover).Įliza Clark, who was known for writing “dark fiction” before Boy Parts was published, doesn’t waste much time setting the scene for her story, which is centered around protagonist (or perhaps antagonist) narrator Irina Sturges, a fetish photographer and bartender who is obsessed with taking pictures of random men-Tesco checkout boys, homeless men off the street-in compromising positions. His prominent clavicle emanates an air of vulnerability. The book draws you in with its cover (designed by Luke Bird), which features an arresting black-and-white photograph of the upper torso of a young white man, probably no older than twenty. Combine that with the fact that this is a novel by a Northern, woman writer of working-class origins (something of a rarity in English publishing), and you have a book that’s practically destined to be underrated. ![]() Launched before vaccines became available, Boy Parts couldn’t be promoted in the “normal” way you’d expect. First published in July 2020, Boy Parts was one of many book releases during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic to be affected by public health-related restrictions. Boy Parts, the debut novel from British author Eliza Clark, is an unsettling work about gender, sex, and power in the art world set in the North East England city of Newcastle. ![]()
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