{"id":153334,"date":"2020-07-22T15:30:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T13:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/07\/22\/eliza-clark-im-from-newcastle-and-working-class-to-publishers-im-diverse\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T15:30:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T13:30:14","slug":"eliza-clark-im-from-newcastle-and-working-class-to-publishers-im-diverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=153334","title":{"rendered":"Eliza Clark: &#039;I&#039;m from Newcastle and working class. To publishers, I&#039;m diverse&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The author of Boy Parts is keen to stress that she is not underprivileged \u2013 and nor is she anything like her sadistic young antiheroineThe dedication in Eliza Clark\u2019s Boy Parts sets the tone for the tale that follows: \u201cFor my mother and father. Please don\u2019t read this.\u201d The novel, a debut by the 26-year-old from Newcastle, will make most readers howl with laughter and\/or shut their eyes in horror. Irina, a beautiful twentysomething, picks up mediocre-looking men in places such as Tesco and photographs them in compromising positions. When the mother of one young model \u2013 \u201cI\u2019d scouted him on the bus and suspected he may have been in sixth form\u201d \u2013 tracks her down at her bar job, Irina leaves to focus on her photography, which she\u2019s been invited to show at an exhibition of contemporary fetish art in London. But digging through her archive throws up repressed memories, and so begins a spiral of self-destruction and violence towards her young male muses during their shoots \u2013 \u201cAnother dig at his mangled nipple elicits a high-pitched, piggy squeal\u201d \u2013 that leaves the reader queasy. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/jul\/22\/eliza-clark-from-newcastle-working-class-publishers-diverse-boy-parts\" target=\"_blank\">Eliza Clark: &#039;I&#039;m from Newcastle and working class. To publishers, I&#039;m diverse&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of Boy Parts is keen to stress that she is not underprivileged \u2013 and nor is she anything like her sadistic young antiheroineThe dedication in Eliza Clark\u2019s Boy Parts sets the tone for the tale that follows: \u201cFor my mother and father. Please don\u2019t read this.\u201d The novel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}