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The Resource Girl, woman, other, Bernardine Evaristo

Girl, woman, other, Bernardine Evaristo

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Summary
"The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her black lesbian identity; her old friend Shirley is a teacher, jaded after decades of work in London's funding-deprived schools; Carole, one of Shirley's former students, works hard to earn a degree from Oxford and becomes an investment banker; Carole's mother Bummi works as a cleaner and worries about her daughter's lack of rootedness despite her obvious achievements. From a nonbinary social media influencer to a 93-year-old woman living on a farm in Northern England, these unforgettable characters also intersect in shared aspects of their identities, from age to race to sexuality to class. Sparklingly witty and filled with emotion, centering voices we often see othered, and written in an innovative and fast-moving form that borrows from poetry, Girl, Woman, Other is a polyphonic and richly textured social novel that reminds us of everything that connects us to our neighbors, even in times when we are encouraged to be split apart"--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
Extent
452 pages
Note
  • "A novel"--Cover
  • "Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize"--Cover
Isbn
9780802156983
Instance
Label
Girl, woman, other
Title
Girl, woman, other
Statement of responsibility
Bernardine Evaristo
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her black lesbian identity; her old friend Shirley is a teacher, jaded after decades of work in London's funding-deprived schools; Carole, one of Shirley's former students, works hard to earn a degree from Oxford and becomes an investment banker; Carole's mother Bummi works as a cleaner and worries about her daughter's lack of rootedness despite her obvious achievements. From a nonbinary social media influencer to a 93-year-old woman living on a farm in Northern England, these unforgettable characters also intersect in shared aspects of their identities, from age to race to sexuality to class. Sparklingly witty and filled with emotion, centering voices we often see othered, and written in an innovative and fast-moving form that borrows from poetry, Girl, Woman, Other is a polyphonic and richly textured social novel that reminds us of everything that connects us to our neighbors, even in times when we are encouraged to be split apart"--
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DLC
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1959-
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Evaristo, Bernardine
Dewey number
823/.914
Index
no index present
LC call number
PR6055.V25
LC item number
G57 2019b
Literary form
fiction
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Black women
  • Lesbians
  • Teachers
  • Investment bankers
  • England
  • Domestic fiction
Label
Girl, woman, other, Bernardine Evaristo
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • "A novel"--Cover
  • "Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize"--Cover
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
2019040552
Dimensions
21 cm
Edition
First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
Extent
452 pages
Isbn
9780802156983
Lccn
2019040552
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1112888264
Label
Girl, woman, other, Bernardine Evaristo
Publication
Note
  • "A novel"--Cover
  • "Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize"--Cover
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
2019040552
Dimensions
21 cm
Edition
First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
Extent
452 pages
Isbn
9780802156983
Lccn
2019040552
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1112888264

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