Woo Woo
- Auteur: Ella Baxter (Australië)
- Soort boek: Australische roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Catapult
- Verschijnt: 3 december 2024
- Omvang: 272 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek
- Prijs: $ 27,00 / $ 12,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Ella Baxter Woo Woo review, recensie en informatie
- “Ella Baxter has written a mesmerizing, strange, propulsive world of art and loneliness and sleep deprivation that swirls her readers around like wine in a glass, forcing us to reckon with who we are and what we believe. One of the few books about process and creation that doesn’t get lost in its own self-importance, Woo Woo is a novel people will want to talk about for years to come. Baxter is a master.” (Kelsey McKinney, author of God Spare the Girls)
- “The whirligig pace of the novel relentlessly intensifies from chapter to chapter as Sabine navigates the boundary between real and manufactured, all in front of a live audience . . . The book is a pointedly absurdist send-up of the pretensions of the art world, which nevertheless carries at its core a real exploration of what is at stake when one lives for art. Baxter continues her triumphant exploration of real lives lived on the fringes of the surreal. Sassy, sharp, and very funny, but with a consequential heart.” (Kirkus Reviews)
Flaptekst van de roman van de Aboriginal schrijfster Ella Baxter
A thrilling and eccentric novel about what it means to make art as a woman, and about the powerful forces of voyeurism, power, obsession, and online performance.
Woo Woofollows Sabine, a conceptual artist on the verge of a photo exhibition she hopes will be pivotal, as she plunges deeper into her neuroses and seeks validation in relationships—with her frustratingly rational chef husband, her horde of devoted Gen Z TikTok followers, and even a mysterious, potentially violent stalker.
Accompanying her throughout are Sabine’s strange alter egos, from hyperrealistic puppets of her as a baby to the ghost of conceptual artist Carolee Schneemann, who shows up with inscrutable yet sage life advice.
Ella Baxter approaches the desire to see and be seen that defines both the creative and romantic act with humor, empathy, and a good dose of wildness, driving Sabine to an surreal and compelling climax that forces her—and us—to reconsider what it means to be an artist and a partner.
Ella Baxter is a writer and artist living on unceded land of the Wurundjeri people in Australia. She is the author of New Animal, which was shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, and was longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the Matt Richell Award for New Writers.