Paulina & Fran - Softcover
Sharp-tongued, fearsome Paulina meets lovely, listless Fran one night at a house-party held near their privileged New England art school. Together they drift through their classes, critique their fellow students, lavish attention on their curls and nurture their shared dreams of genius. But when their burgeoning friendship tips from intensity into enmity our two heroines find themselves cast out from the halcyon days of art school, divided from one another and set adrift in the increasingly disappointing world of adulthood. Written with wit and brio, dancing between razor-sharp satire and a tender portrait of unrequited love, Paulina & Fran is a beguiling whirl of a novel from a writer of immense talent.
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'A funny and honest look at what happens to a friendship after two friends leave the rose-tinted world of university and enter the world of adulthood' -- Marie Claire
'Witty, dark and pretty debauched' -- Alison Potter, Reading Chronicle
' The college scenes sparkle with Glaser's crisp portraits of the self-obsessed students' -- Suzy Feay, the Guardian
'Unlike anything I've read before, satirical and moving and weird ... [it] ambushed me and gave me faith' --Ben Marcus, New Yorker Books of the Year
'Glaser's style is one of blithe irreverence, a kind of moreish sardonic drawl perfect for occasional, blind-siding emotional wallops' --Irish Times 'Books of the Year'
'Reading Paulina & Fran is the literary version of hanging with the cool girls' -- Emerald Street
'One for fans of TV show Girls' -- Diva
'Paulina & Fran is the anti-romance satire for the Frances Ha generation' --Kate Loftus-O' Brien, HUCK Magazine
'A book also of the intensity of friendship and emotion in young adulthood, and of the difficulty of changing our lives' --Asylum
'[A] standout' -- Jane Bradley, the Scotsman
'A razor-sharp dissection of a female friendship' -- Fanny Blake, the Daily Mail
'An astute and witty portrayal of [...] coming of age' -- Sarah Gilmartin, Irish Times
'A tale of two art-school heroines and their turbulent youth, full of delicious pettiness' -- Style of Sunday Times
'Part "post-collegiate" novel, part gender-fluid love tragedy... The novel [presents] smart but slippery protagonists, page after page of sharp, memorable similes... a memorable pastiche of the art-school world, and a raft of decent jokes' -- Philip Maughan, New Statesman
'Intense and provocative' -- Sinead Gleeson, RTÉ Radio One Arena
'Full of crackly sharp sentences[and] moments of darkly poignant humour' -- Anna James in Independent on Sunday
'Unruly, undirected desire permeates Glaser's novel... Like F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night, Glaser's book is better understood as a novel of bohemia... They long for a friendship that never quite formed, for a time when anything could happen, and for a place where everyone danced' -- Maggie Doherty, TLS
'The writing in this novel is sassy [...] Indeed this coming-of-age story of intense relationships, oddball wannabe artists and shifting allegiances is full of scenes that stick in the mind, all fuelled by fast-talking characters who mix the naive with the knowing.' -- Michael Prodger, RA magazine
'The writing is fresh and the imagery is brilliantly original' -- Lynn Enright, Pool
'I read this in one sitting... The writing feels fresh, and it's extremely visual and witty... You'll find yourself enticed into their world.' --Image Magazine
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'Witty, dark and pretty debauched' -- Alison Potter, Reading Chronicle
' The college scenes sparkle with Glaser's crisp portraits of the self-obsessed students' -- Suzy Feay, the Guardian
'Unlike anything I've read before, satirical and moving and weird ... [it] ambushed me and gave me faith' --Ben Marcus, New Yorker Books of the Year
'Glaser's style is one of blithe irreverence, a kind of moreish sardonic drawl perfect for occasional, blind-siding emotional wallops' --Irish Times 'Books of the Year'
'Reading Paulina & Fran is the literary version of hanging with the cool girls' -- Emerald Street
'One for fans of TV show Girls' -- Diva
'Paulina & Fran is the anti-romance satire for the Frances Ha generation' --Kate Loftus-O' Brien, HUCK Magazine
'A book also of the intensity of friendship and emotion in young adulthood, and of the difficulty of changing our lives' --Asylum
'[A] standout' -- Jane Bradley, the Scotsman
'A razor-sharp dissection of a female friendship' -- Fanny Blake, the Daily Mail
'An astute and witty portrayal of [...] coming of age' -- Sarah Gilmartin, Irish Times
'A tale of two art-school heroines and their turbulent youth, full of delicious pettiness' -- Style of Sunday Times
'Part "post-collegiate" novel, part gender-fluid love tragedy... The novel [presents] smart but slippery protagonists, page after page of sharp, memorable similes... a memorable pastiche of the art-school world, and a raft of decent jokes' -- Philip Maughan, New Statesman
'Intense and provocative' -- Sinead Gleeson, RTÉ Radio One Arena
'Full of crackly sharp sentences[and] moments of darkly poignant humour' -- Anna James in Independent on Sunday
'Unruly, undirected desire permeates Glaser's novel... Like F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night, Glaser's book is better understood as a novel of bohemia... They long for a friendship that never quite formed, for a time when anything could happen, and for a place where everyone danced' -- Maggie Doherty, TLS
'The writing in this novel is sassy [...] Indeed this coming-of-age story of intense relationships, oddball wannabe artists and shifting allegiances is full of scenes that stick in the mind, all fuelled by fast-talking characters who mix the naive with the knowing.' -- Michael Prodger, RA magazine
'The writing is fresh and the imagery is brilliantly original' -- Lynn Enright, Pool
'I read this in one sitting... The writing feels fresh, and it's extremely visual and witty... You'll find yourself enticed into their world.' --Image Magazine
At an elite New England art school, two young women collide. Paulina is a sexually adventurous wannabe queen bee with a devastating mean- girl streak. Fran is a gifted yet reluctant painter with gorgeous curly hair and uncertain dreams. On a trip to Norway the two are drawn together, but as adult life encroaches, jealousy and unexpected love tear them apart. Rachel B. Glaser's Paulina & Fran is both a sparkling dance party of a novel and a wicked, wistful snapshot of that moment when the carefree cocoon of adolescence opens into the permanent, unknowable future.
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- PublisherGranta
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1783781580
- ISBN 13 9781783781584
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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