Freakslaw

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Beschreibung

<p><b>Discover the dazzling new queer literary horror novel about chosen family and the risks it takes to become the person you want to be.</b></p><p>'The glittery punk offspring of Katherine Dunn's <i>Geek Love</i> and Angela Carter's <i>Nights at the Circus</i>.' Chelsea G. Summers, author of <i>A Certain Hunger</i></p><p><b>A travelling funfair of seductive troublemakers arrive in a repressed Scottish town. What could possibly go wrong?</b></p><p>It's the summer of '97 and the Scottish town of Pitlaw is itching for change.</p><p>Enter the Freakslaw - a travelling funfair populated by deviant queers, a contortionist witch, the most powerful fortune teller, and other architects of mayhem. It doesn't take long for the Freakslaw folk to infiltrate Pitlaw's grey world, where the town's teenagers - none more so than Ruth and Derek - are seduced by neon charms and the possibility of escape.</p><p>But beneath it all, these newcomers are harbouring a darker desire: <b>revenge.</b></p><p>And as tensions reach fever pitch between the stoic locals and the dazzling intruders, a violence that's been simmering for centuries is about to be unleashed...</p><p><b>Praise for <i>Freakslaw:</i></b></p><p><b>'A transgressive, inventive dark fantasy' </b><i>Guardian</i></p><p><b>'Crackling with desire, hedonism, angst, violence and sex' </b><i>Heat</i></p><p><b>'As frightening as it is seductive' </b><i>Herald</i></p><p><b>'I'd kill to run away with this circus' </b>Michelle Tea, author of<i> Modern Tarot</i></p><p><b>'A queer punk masterpiece'</b> Leon Craig, author of <i>Parallel Hells</i></p><p><b>'A strong spiritual successor to Katherine Dunn's <i>Geek Love</i>' </b>Heather Parry, author of <i>Orpheus Builds a Girl</i></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781804992463

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

194 x 127 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Transworld Publ. Ltd UK