Boy Parts

by Eliza Clark, Eliza Clark (Read by)

Overview

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol and extreme cinema. 

The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina's relationship with her obsessive best friend and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention.... 

Boy Parts is the incendiary debut novel from Eliza Clark, a pitch-black comedy both shocking and hilarious, fearlessly exploring the taboo regions of sexuality and gender roles in the 21st century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781713586067
Publisher:	Brilliance Audio
Publication date:	09/07/2021
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Eliza Clark is a writer from Newcastle, living in London, where she attended Chelsea College of Art. Her debut novel, Boy Parts (2020), was Blackwell's Fiction Book of the Year and a finalist for the Women's Prize Futures Award. She was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2023.

Gillian Greer is a playwright and dramaturg from Dublin.

Her plays include: Boy Parts, adapted from the novel by Eliza Clark (Soho Theatre, 2023); Meat (Theatre503, London, 2020; a finalist in the 2018 International Playwriting Award); and Petals (nominated for the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best New Play in 2015).

As a dramaturg, she has worked at the National Theatre, VAULT Festival, Clean Break Theatre Company, The Mercury Theatre and many more. She was appointed Literary Manager of Soho Theatre, London, in 2019.

Editorial Reviews

A striking and visceral adaptation... captures all the humor of Irina's complex life, as well as those difficult moments that make a perfect thriller.”—The Stage

“Thrilling and frankly terrifying... breathlessly compulsive, edge-of-your-seat stuff... unquestionably a striking piece of theatre.”—WhatsOnStage

“Enthralling... one of the best page-to-stage adaptations we've seen... Greer transposes Clark's voice exquisitely... it's sharp, entertaining, vicious, thrilling, morbid, uncomfortable, and alarmingly irresistible.”—Broadway World

“Engrossing and darkly funny.”—New York Times

“Brings Eliza Clark's subversive and visceral novel to the stage in uncompromising style... balances the horror and humor with equal grace.”—Theatre Weekly

“Exhilarating and sinister.”—West End Best Friend

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