U GirlAuthor :
Paperback
Published : Thursday 15 December 2016
Description
Award-winning author Meredith Quartermains second novel and seventh book, U Girl, is a coming-of-age story set in Vancouver in 1972, a city crossed between love-in hip and forest-corp square.
Frances Nelson escapes her small-town background to attend first-year university in the big city. "Youve got to find the great love," her new friend Dagmar tells her. But what makes it love instead of sex? And what kind of love bonds friends? She gleans surprising answers from Jack, a construction worker, Dwight, a mechanic and dope peddler, Carla, a bar waitress whos seen better days, and her English professor and sailing friend, Nigel. U Girl blurs the line between fiction and reality as Frances begins to write a novel about the people she comes to know. With seamless metafictional play and an engagement with place that has come to be Quartermains definitive style, U Girl tells the story of a womans struggle to be taken seriously - to be equal to men despite her sexual attraction to them, and to dislodge accepted narratives of gender and class in the institution of the university during the "free love" era. In this sprawling and perceptive novel, Quartermain takes us through sexual experimentation, drugs, jobs, meditating on Wreck Beach, sailing up through Desolation Sound, and studying at the University of British Columbia.
U Girl is a story that pays homage to local haunts and literary influences in equal measure. Quartermain brings to Canadian literature a wholesome and vital female perspective in this long-awaited bildungsroman.
You may also like ...
by
Paperback
01 Apr 2020
Poetry by individual poets
€17.54
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
15 Dec 2016
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
€17.54
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
01 Sep 2013
Historical fiction
€19.88
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
01 Nov 2010
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
€18.66
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
Reviews