Ponyboy
by
Eliot Duncan
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1804440302
ISBN-13
9781804440308
Publisher
Footnote Press Ltd
Imprint
Footnote Press Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 8th, 2023
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
180 grams
Dimensions
19.80 x 13.00 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Ponyboy pops pills, snorts speed, and attempts art as he comes to terms with his transmasculinity and addiction in Paris and Berlin, in the electric debut from Eliot Duncan.
<p><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2023</b><br><b><br>'Incendiary . . . A uniquely trans story' </b><i>Dazed</i><br><b>'Gutting and glittery'</b> <i>Nylon</i><br><b>'Eliot Duncan's melancholic transboy swagger sparkles . . . An astonishing first novel' </b>ANDREA LAWLOR<br><br>In the first of three acts, <i>Ponyboy</i>'s titular narrator - a pill-popping, speed-snorting, trans-masculine lightning bolt - unravels in his Paris apartment. Ponyboy is caught in a messy love triangle between Baby, a lesbian painter who can't see herself being with someone trans, and Toni, a childhood friend who can actually see Ponyboy for who he is.<br><br>Strung out, Ponyboy follows Baby to Berlin where he sinks deeper into drugs and falls for Gabriel, all the while pursued by a megalomaniacal photographer hungry for the next hot thing. As his relationships crumble, Ponyboy unexpectedly wakes up alone in Iowa, his childhood home. Now Ponyboy must finally choose a name.<br><br>An evocative novel of art and addiction, self-destruction and re-construction, <i>Ponyboy</i> thrums with the joys, aches and pains of becoming who you are meant to be.</p>
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