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We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff – Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2019

Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2019`We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff` is an innovative and critically British novel, taking issue with the dream of national belonging. Set on the Isle of Wight, a small island off the south coast of England, it collides literary aesthetics with contemporary working class cultures and attitudes (B.S. Johnson and Reebok classics), works with themes of empire, embodiment and resistance, and interrogates autobiographical material including the queer migrant experience.’œIsabel Waidner will save the nation & save our souls.” Joanna Walsh’œ`We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff` evokes a topsy-turvy, highly animated world to explore a declining empire’™s hopelessly fucked up inequities of class, race, queerness, and immigration status. At one point the narrator (who looks like Eleven from Stranger Things but who happens to be 36) blurts out, ‘œWhere’™s reality, I want to change it.” This is one of the saddest lines I’™ve ever read, perfectly rearticulating the ‘œno there there” anxiety that Gertrude Stein attributed to modern life a century ago. In a world in which everything is stacked against them, Isabel Waidner’™s resourceful characters survive, not just physically but spiritually as well. Despite their unflinching vision into virulent social practices, they never lose heart.” Dodie Bellamy

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