Thirlwell Adam - The Future Future A Novel - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Short - listed for the Goldsmiths Prize Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction A wild story of female friendship language and power from France to colonial America to the moon from 1775 to this very moment: a historical novel like no other. It's the eighteenth century and Celine is in trouble. Her husband is mostly absent. Her parents are elsewhere. And meanwhile men are inventing stories about her about her affairs her sexuality her orgies and addictions. All these stories are lies but the public loves them and spreads them like a virus. Celine can only watch as her name becomes a symbol for everything rotten in society. This is a world of decadence and saturation of lavish parties and private salons of tulle and satin and sex and violence. It's also one ruled by men high on colonial genocide natural destruction crimes against women and above all language. To survive Celine and her friends must band together in search of justice truth and beauty. Fantastical funny and blindingly bright Adam Thirlwell's The Future Future follows one woman on an urgently contemporary quest to clear her name and change the world.
Title: The Future Future A Novel
Author(s): Thirlwell Adam
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374607616
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/17/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction