Boy Parts

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Densely packed mayo, jiggling about, doesn’t know what to do with its arms, doesn’t know what to do with its feet, undulating loosely, barely in time to the rhythm. but I think that's maybe just because if you tend towards them, you tend to keep a place in your heart for all of them. It would have made more sense if she’d said that first thing out loud, to impress her peers with how comfortably she can talk about whiteness and make them feel inadequate and less savvy (after all wasn't she supposed to enjoy feeling superior to others? this is a portrayal of how many people, men especially, who were previously abused in the past, become abusers.

This is all to say that Irina being a stronza who engages in ‘bad’ behaviour, is not why I didn’t like this book. I could train a camera on a man and look at him like a man looks at a woman; boys, too, could be objects of desire. And I am fond of the 'she’s not feeling too good' subgenre, contemporary books that are characterized by a caustic tone and explore the lives of women who are, you guessed it, not feeling too good and are depicted as alienated and self-sabotaging … I also do not have a problem with books combining dark humor with violence, My Sister the Serial Killer is a fave of mine.Into the fray comes Eliza Clarks debut novel, Boy Parts, a first person narration chronicling the spiral into abuse and otherwise unhinged behavior of Irina, a strikingly attractive rising star in the realm of fetish photography. Boy Parts is a distressing novel, but one that probes really important questions about power, sexuality and violence, and does so in a way that will have you laughing as much as you are cringing. There is a storyline involving, you guessed it, ‘boy parts’ that was just a rip off from American Psycho (in that we are meant to question the veracity of irina’s recollection of these violent events). Which sounds all right, until you start to see the woman behind the art: is she making a statement or does she just enjoy hurting people? Meanwhile, her fixation with a shy Tesco cashier and a head full of drugs are amalgamating into a dangerous cocktail.

And to define it by comparison suggests Boy Parts isn't original, that it isn't great in its own right, which it ABSOLUTELY is.i've also only heard good things about it so it better not let me down or i may never recover again. And I can forgive a lack of intersectionality and dimension if say this, like Plath's Bell Jar, had been published in the 1960s.

Yet for all the power Irina exhibits over others, there is still the aspect of a patriarchal society she works within and how dangerous it is for women. anyway bret easton ellis is a hack and i'm really drifting away from the point i was trying to make here. When she’s offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery which promises to revive her career in the art world, it should feel like an escape.Clark manages to make a feverish descent to hell into a thrill ride where we clutch the page like the harness on a roller coaster and spend the whole trip both screaming and laughing.