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The Feminist Fight Club.

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Synopsis

This is the story of a hunger that never goes away. And of Roberta, who lives trying not to take up space.
At almost thirty, she is stuck in a meaningless job. One day she meets Stevie, she is free and dangerous. They become friends, move in together. Then they invent the Supper Club. A collective of women tired of being told they must talk less, eat less, cost less, be less. But the more popular and subversive the club becomes, the more Roberta is forced to reconcile herself with the vulnerability of her own body – and the past she has worked so hard to repress.

The Devourers is a story about the hunger for life. A novel about growing up and finding your place in the world.

Details

Translation by Dafne Calgaro, Marina Calvaresi
Year of publication: January 2021
Number of pages: 327 pages
Format: 14 x 21 cm
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9788831321044

Author

Lara Williams lives in Manchester, England, where she contributes to the Guardian, the Independent, the Times Literary Supplement and Vice, among others, and where she teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is the author of a book of short stories, Treats, which has been shortlisted for several literary awards, including the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the Edinburgh First Book Award. In 2019, The Devourers, her first, powerful novel, won the Guardian's Not The Booker Prize, which also brilliantly called it "a feminist Fight Club".

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