Book information
No Alibis Press
UK
2021
Paperback
220
Standard
304290
978-1-83810-810-6
1-83810-810-6
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Annotation
A queer non coming out story about sex, adolescence, class, fear and contagion in the 1980s: a lush, sensual experimental novel with a hidden linguistic constraint. 'By resisting representational narrative, this book works like a 3D printer. Language is the raw material, laid down layer by layer, until the solid object of the story is formed. Non-conformist, hypnotic, incantatory, and satisfyingly strange.' -- Jeanette Winterson We are reading English Literature to tell us what England is. I have never lived in England. I have lived here all my life. An English Valley, summer 1988. A girl leaves school to turn 18 in the raw industrial countryside outside a new town. A polyphonic novel, Seed celebrates the dirty beauty of an untold pre-internet adolescence, of bodies, sexualities, class, environment, fear, joy and love. Shaped by contemporary terrors (CJD, AIDS, Cherobyl), by the voices of fashion magazines, government warnings, media reports of disasters elsewhere, and the words Ophelia speaks in Halmlet, the narrator's voie is also the voice of the seasons budding, blooming, fruiting, and of human time, of something that grows and blossoms between girl and womanhood. Seed is tied by a hidden linguistic constraint.
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