Transit by Brigid Brophy (61 results)

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Paperback. Condition: New. "Was I, perhaps, castrato/a? Was the truth behind my oblivion that I had no sex?"At the airport, Pat - an Anglo-Irish character of undetermined gender at the heart of In Transit - is called to a heroic quest. Adrift within the confines of the airport's physical space and time zones, they undergo a journey of self-discovery that embraces tangents, digressions, and undecidability.As supersonic Concordes soar in the skies outside, inside the airport Pat is uprooted: they savour a trendy cappuccino, walk through magazine stalls, engross themselves in the operatic melodies at the airline lounge.They hop on a baggage conveyor leading to an underground feminist movement, engage in a lively trivia game show and witness the sparks of a socialist revolution. After they become a character in an erotic thriller and detective novel, Pat encounters death, and emerges reborn-all while navigating sudden shifts in gender due to the onset of 'sexual amnesia'. Brophy's experimental non-binary 1969 anti-novel was decades ahead of its time. At once a refusal to be identified, and irreverent celebration of identity's undoing.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. "Was I, perhaps, castrato/a? Was the truth behind my oblivion that I had no sex?"At the airport, Pat - an Anglo-Irish character of undetermined gender at the heart of In Transit - is called to a heroic quest. Adrift within the confines of the airport's physical space and time zones, they undergo a journey of self-discovery that embraces tangents, digressions, and undecidability.As supersonic Concordes soar in the skies outside, inside the airport Pat is uprooted: they savour a trendy cappuccino, walk through magazine stalls, engross themselves in the operatic melodies at the airline lounge.They hop on a baggage conveyor leading to an underground feminist movement, engage in a lively trivia game show and witness the sparks of a socialist revolution. After they become a character in an erotic thriller and detective novel, Pat encounters death, and emerges reborn-all while navigating sudden shifts in gender due to the onset of 'sexual amnesia'. Brophy's experimental non-binary 1969 anti-novel was decades ahead of its time. At once a refusal to be identified, and irreverent celebration of identity's undoing.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Was I, perhaps, castrato/a? Was the truth behind my oblivion that I had no sex?"At the airport, Pat an Anglo-Irish character of undetermined gender at the heart of In Transit is called to a heroic quest. Adrift within the confines of the airports physical space and time zones, they undergo a journey of self-discovery that embraces tangents, digressions, and undecidability.As supersonic Concordes soar in the skies outside, inside the airport Pat is uprooted: they savour a trendy cappuccino, walk through magazine stalls, engross themselves in the operatic melodies at the airline lounge.They hop on a baggage conveyor leading to an underground feminist movement, engage in a lively trivia game show and witness the sparks of a socialist revolution. After they become a character in an erotic thriller and detective novel, Pat encounters death, and emerges rebornall while navigating sudden shifts in gender due to the onset of sexual amnesia. Brophys experimental non-binary 1969 anti-novel was decades ahead of its time. At once a refusal to be identified, and irreverent celebration of identity's undoing. At the airport, Pat - an Anglo-Irish character of undetermined gender - is called to a heroic quest. Adrift within the airport's confines and multiple time zones, they undergo a journey of self-discovery. Supersonic Concordes soar in the skies outside, inside the airport Pat is uprooted. They become In Transit. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A gender-bending satire, as fresh and thought-provoking today as it was on its original publication in 1969.Set in an airport lounge, In Transit follows contemporary traveler Evelyn Hillary O'Rooley who has "lost" his/her gender, prompting him/her to perform a series of unsuccessful, yet bizarrely hilarious, philosophical and anatomical tests to rediscover it. Divided into four symphony sections, Brigid Brophy surrounds this simple plot device with an endless stream of puns, allusions, and experiments with narrative consciousness, as our protagonist finds him-/herself in a situation quite similar to a modern Orlando.Widely considered the novel which catapulted Brophy to renown as a postmodern writer, In Transit is a textual labyrinth--littered with word games, metafictional events, and surreal encounters that challenge readers' preconceived notions of gender, identity, and reality. With a new introduction by Katherine Packert Burke, Dalkey Archive Press is thrilled to reintroduce Brophy's relentlessly clever and prescient masterpiece to contemporary readers. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Set in an airport ("one of the rare places where twentieth-century design is happy with its own style"), In Transit is a textual labyrinth centering on a contemporary traveller. Waiting for a flight, Evelyn Hillary O'Rooley suffers from uncertainty about his/her gender, provoking him/her to perform a series of unsuccessful, yet hilarious, philosophical and anatomical tests. Brigid Brophy surrounds the kernel of this plot with an unrelenting stream of puns, word games, metafictional moments and surreal situations (like a lesbian revolution in the baggage claim area) that challenge the reader's preconceptions about life and fiction and that remain endlessly entertaining. 252 pages. …

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