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Doll

Doll

Peter Leggatt
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"Sex, death, flowers-rivers, seas, sleep. They all have beds. This was my very first thought."

The first part of this story is told from the perspective of a sex doll. The second from the perspective of the man who owns her.

Peter Leggatt's debut novel opens with the thoughts of a sex doll as she comes to consciousness inside her crate, about to be delivered to the apartment of her owner, J. There, J opens her. What ensues is a very modern love affair, teetering between tragedy and the darkly comic, and written in prose of hallucinatory beauty. At a moment when debate over gender and identity is increasingly fraught Doll affords a provocative new perspective on love and objectification.

PRAISE FOR DOLL:

“DOLL is an astonishing piece of writing. Its ingenuity, and intelligence, and strangeness, and indeed beauty, carry for me a Nabokov originality, and that is a high matching indeed. I have absolutely no doubt this is best seller material.””
— TIM WATERSTONE, novelist and founder of Waterstones

“DOLL’s voice is so strange and beautiful and funny and endearing and heartbreaking—whilst constituting a remarkable meditation on consciousness and the body.”
— KATHRYN DAVIS, author of DUPLEX, Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Lannan Literary Award
Language
English
Pages
204
Format
Hardcover
Release
January 28, 2021
ISBN 13
9781838595470

Doll

Peter Leggatt
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
"Sex, death, flowers-rivers, seas, sleep. They all have beds. This was my very first thought."

The first part of this story is told from the perspective of a sex doll. The second from the perspective of the man who owns her.

Peter Leggatt's debut novel opens with the thoughts of a sex doll as she comes to consciousness inside her crate, about to be delivered to the apartment of her owner, J. There, J opens her. What ensues is a very modern love affair, teetering between tragedy and the darkly comic, and written in prose of hallucinatory beauty. At a moment when debate over gender and identity is increasingly fraught Doll affords a provocative new perspective on love and objectification.

PRAISE FOR DOLL:

“DOLL is an astonishing piece of writing. Its ingenuity, and intelligence, and strangeness, and indeed beauty, carry for me a Nabokov originality, and that is a high matching indeed. I have absolutely no doubt this is best seller material.””
— TIM WATERSTONE, novelist and founder of Waterstones

“DOLL’s voice is so strange and beautiful and funny and endearing and heartbreaking—whilst constituting a remarkable meditation on consciousness and the body.”
— KATHRYN DAVIS, author of DUPLEX, Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Lannan Literary Award
Language
English
Pages
204
Format
Hardcover
Release
January 28, 2021
ISBN 13
9781838595470

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