Corey Fah Does Social Mobility

[The] writer everyone is talking about … and deservedly so … Their explosive sensibility and style are as far removed from mediocre prose and middle-class manners as you can imagine – Bernardine EvaristoBuckle up! Corey Fah Does Social Mobility is a head-spinning, mind-bending roller coaster of fun, horror, and subversion. I love it – Kamila ShamsieThe fantastical and the familiar merge in this energetic inquiry into class politics and cultural capital … Since their debut novel, Gaudy Bauble, in 2017, Waidner’s writing has been admired for its remarkable innovation, unflinching political vision, vivid language and, frankly, hilarious charm … It is tempting to predict that this book, which gives a whole new dimension to the idea of the zeitgeist … will see Waidner step on to the podium once more – Lara Pawson * Guardian *With each book, they get better and better. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility is that rare thing: An authentically radical novel that is joyful and hilarious – Merve EmreA radical, rebellious novel … [Waidner] brings a fresh lens to our troubled world … A biting, state of the nation work that raises the profile of civilisation’s appointed underdogs and challenges the status quo of binary consciousness … bold, feisty work – Em Strang * Observer *[It is] rare to find a novel with real stylistic and political ambition – Zadie Smith * Guardian *[A] sprightly novel … [Waidner] mischievously challenges received notions of social mobility – Ellen Peirson-Hagger * The New Statesman *Filled with wickedly sharp commentary and well-aimed digs at hypocrisy and injustice … Waidner’s idiosyncratic prose [paints] terrifying, transcendent and topsy-turvy images … Corey Fah Does Social Mobility is, perhaps surprisingly, both sentimental and optimistic in its depiction of love (for ourselves and those around us) as a radical act – Alice Wadsworth * The Times Literary Supplement *It’s beginning to look like there’s nothing the immensely talented Waidner can’t do * Kirkus (starred review) *Waidner’s original prose spins fantastical imagery with social commentary * Frieze *

Isabel Waidner is the author of five novels - including Sterling Karat Gold, which won the Goldsmiths Prize and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Republic of Consciousness Prize, and Corey Fah Does Social Mobility which was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. They teach in the School of the Arts at Queen Mary University of London.

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