Eat My Heart Out
By (Author) Zoe Pilger
Profile Books Ltd
Serpent's Tail
18th August 2020
2nd July 2020
Main - Classic Edition
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
304
Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 22mm
240g
'The anti-Bridget Jones ... brutally funny' - Chris Kraus
Ann-Marie's life has collapsed, and she's blaming everyone but herself. Twenty-three, heartbroken, skint and furious, she's convinced that love - sweet love! - is the answer to all of her problems. But then she meets an unlikely saviour in legendary feminist Stephanie Haight, for whom Ann-Marie becomes the first step in re-educating an entire generation out of their ironic detachment and into the welcoming arms of second-wave feminism.
As Ann-Marie's semi-consensual feminist awakening leads her from neo-burlesque pop-up strip clubs to ritual worship ceremonies summoning ancient power goddesses, Zoe Pilger spins around her heroine a fiercely clever and unapologetically wild satire for our narcissistic, hedonistic, post-post-feminist times.
'Pilger might be the heiress to Angela Carter.' - Deborah Levy
Dead smart and gloriously, mercifully, snort-out-loud hilarious -- Stuart Hammond * Dazed and Confused *
Zoe Pilger was born in 1984. Eat My Heart Out won a Somerset Maugham Award and a Betty Trask Award. It was shortlisted for a 2016 Lambda Literary Award in the US. Zoe is writing a quartet of novels, which is supported by The Society of Authors and Arts Council England. She lives in London.