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product_id: 128118964
title: "Crudo: A Novel"
brand: "olivia laing"
price: "RM96"
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reviews_count: 9
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# Crudo: A Novel

**Brand:** olivia laing
**Price:** RM96
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Crudo: A Novel by olivia laing
- **How much does it cost?** RM96 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Braying all the way
  

*by K***C on Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2019*

Almost a work of meta-fiction, this is Laing's first foray into fiction, but it is really more of a screed, a cry of frustration.  The summer of 2017 is a scorcher in more ways than one for her.  She is getting married for the first time at the age of 40, and is preparing shortly thereafter to return to New York to teach, so she is addressing both Brexit and the anticipation of living in the U.S. under the Trump administration.  Her feelings about the man echo many of ours (constant questioning of how did this happen), and she does it so eloquently:  "This is how it is, then.  Walking backward into disaster, braying all the way.")  It is also an examination of mature love, in her marriage to a poet 29 years her senior.  Theirs is a true companionship.  Through him she examines the place of art in the modern world, but her character's vocation as a novelist apparently does not completely reflect her own history, but that of someone else.  She apparently wrote this quickly, it being published nine months following the fictionalized events of her own life.  In many ways the style and content reminded me of this year's output by Rachel Cusk and Ali Smith.  But she is angrier.  This truly is the Zeitgeist novel of the year.

### ⭐ 







  
  
    Not worth it
  

*by N***G on Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2018*

It’s not often I abandon a book halfway through reading, but let’s face it: Life’s too short. I enjoyed the writing style and premise of the book at first, but the scrappiness of the writing, absence of almost any recognizable grammar, and lack of a distinguishable plot made this read like the first draft of someone’s hastily written book, not their final manuscript.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A mystery to be solved
  

*by C***R on Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2018*

This is one of the most compelling books I've read. I know I've missed some of the allusions, but it reflected a lot of what I've experienced in the past two years.  I'd recommend it to people with a college education who are inveterate readers

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