Detransition, Baby: A Novel - (libro En Inglés)

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Nombre: Detransition, Baby: A Novel - (Libro en Inglés)
Marca: One World

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The lives of three womentransgender and cisgendercollide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires in one of the most celebrated novels of the year (Time)Reading this novel is like holding a live wire in your hand.VultureNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by more than twenty publications, including The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Time, Vogue, Esquire, Vulture, and AutostraddlePEN/Hemingway Award Winner Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Gotham Book Prize Longlisted for The Womens Prize Roxane Gays Audacious Book Club Pick New York Times Editors ChoiceReese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men.Ames isn't happy either. He thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but that decision cost him his relationship with Reeseand losing her meant losing his only family. Even though their romance is over, he longs to find a way back to her. When Ames's boss and lover, Katrina, reveals that she's pregnant with his babyand that she's not sure whether she wants to keep itAmes wonders if this is the chance he's been waiting for. Could the three of them form some kind of unconventional familyand raise the baby together?This provocative debut is about what happens at the emotional, messy, vulnerable corners of womanhood that platitudes and good intentions can't reach. Torrey Peters brilliantly and fearlessly navigates the most dangerous taboos around gender, sex, and relationships, gifting us a thrillingly original, witty, and deeply moving novel. Críticas Detransition, Baby is so good I want to scream.Carmen Maria MachadoThis book is exhilaratingly good.Jia TolentinoAn unforgettable portrait of three women, trans and cis, who wrestle with questions of motherhood and family making . . . Detransition, Baby might destroy your book club, but in a good way.Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl A tale of love, loss, and self-discovery as singular as it is universal, and all the sweeter for it.Entertainment WeeklyIts the smartest novel Ive read in ages. I wish I could figure out how it manages to be utterly savage & lacerating while also conveying endlessly expanding compassion. Its kind of a miracle.Garth GreenwellIf I had the ability to momentarily wipe my memory, Id use it to reread Detransition, Baby for the first time.VogueEven the most complimentary adjectives feel insufficient to describe Torrey Peters first novel. Bookpage (starred review)This emotionally devastating, culturally specific, endlessly intelligent novel is . . . really, really funny.AustostraddleA fiercely confident novel.O: The Oprah MagazineWith heart and savvy, [Detransition, Baby upends] our traditional, gendered notions of what parenthood can look like.The New York Times Book Review[Peters] confronts the unruliness of our desires, and our vitality as we struggle within their limits.The New Yorker[An] electrifying debut . . . a deeply searching novel that resists easy answers.EsquirePeterss soap opera-meets-modern-cultural-analysis is witty, emotional, and eye-opening.People[Peters gets] to the very heart of what it means to exist as a gendered being in the world.them Funny and gossipy and insightful and cutting and absolutely delicious, all while tackling issues from a lens that has been missing from the literary world for way too long.Refinery29[Detransition, Ba

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-Idioma: Inglés
-Autor: Peters, Torrey
-Editorial: One World
-N° Paginas: 352
-Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
-Envío: Desde EE.UU.

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Tiempo de entrega: 10 días
Peso del paquete: 1 kg
Medidas: 5 cm x 22 cm x 27 cm cm
Material: Papel
Modelo: 9780593133378
Meses de garantía: 1
Garantía: Por defectos de fabricación
Condición: Nuevo
Color: Multicolor
Nombre de color: Multicolor
ASIN: 0593133374
País de producción: United States
Encuadernado: Pasta dura
Editorial: One World
Titulo del libro: Detransition, Baby: A Novel - (Libro en Inglés)
Autor: Peters, Torrey
Fecha de publicación: 2021
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 352
ISBN-13: 9780593133378
Edad mínima sugerida: 6
Contenido del paquete: 1 pieza
SKU: 9780593133378