A brilliant novella from a legendary figure in American fiction
A young woman drifts through dimly lit bars and rented rooms, reporting from the erogenous zones of New York and Europe. Encountering increasingly bizarre sexual situations, she turns her curious, comic, and fierce eye onto the contemporary world of sex and desire.
The men of this world evade and simper, they prey, preen, and fall hopelessly in love. In the narrator’s deadpan portraits, we see young women indulging their freedom through hope and disappointment, and young men wearing various guises of masculinity.
This novella surprises with unlikely fucks, disturbing fucks, outlandish fucks, and some truly weird fucks – all written with the smart, elegant, and tough style which could only be that of Lynne Tillman.
'Weird Fucks. Killer sentences. This sex is hilarious, this sex is devastating, this sex is life. Lynne Tillman is the greatest.' - Charlie Porter
'Many early signs of Lynne Tillman's magnificent uniqueness are here on display: the deadpan humour, the wonderful telegraphic prose, the sure-fire wit, and a piercing anthropological gaze from which no one is spared. This first novella of hers is devastating and exhilarating in equal measure.' - Chloe Aridjis
'Weird Fucks is brilliant, witty, economical, disturbing, delicious, devastating, devastatingly funny, surprising, revealing, reassuring, elegant, brutal, inevitable, cosmic.' - Harry Mathews
'Weird Fucks is better than sex, it's a literary mindfuck, it blew me away.' --- Stewart Home
About the Author
Lynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic. The author of fifteen books across fiction and non-fiction, her work has been a twice finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Tillman is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writing Fellowship. Tillman is Professor/Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at The University of Albany and teaches at the School of Visual Arts' Art Criticism and Writing MFA Program in New York.
