Ecstatic - Emily Woof

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Auteur(s) : Emily Woof

Editeur : Global Book Sales

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/01/2027

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 320.0

ISBN : 1806770695

Résumé :

When a government curfew silences a city, one woman risks everything to make it dance again. An electrifying near-future novel about state control, collective resistance and the radical power of dance in a city on the brink.

'Passionate and compulsive' Esther Freud, author of Hideous Kinky

In a near-future London gripped by heat, unrest and state control, Lois refuses to let the body be regulated. When the right to assemble is revoked and the city turns brittle with violence, she plans an illegal three-day 'long dance' inside a crumbling East End church. What begins as an act of liberation will ripple through the lives of five strangers, with consequences none of them can foresee.

Ecstatic is a fierce, lyrical novel about freedom and control, intimacy and collective release. It captures a city on edge and the underground communities that refuse to surrender joy. At once political and deeply human, it asks what happens when we lose touch with our bodies, and what it might cost to reclaim them.

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Biographie:
Emily Woof is a writer, actor and director from Newcastle Upon Tyne who has written for stage, screen and radio. Her first two novels, The Whole Wide Beauty (2010) and The Lightning Tree (2015), were published by Faber to wide acclaim. Her plays include Sex III, Revolver, Going Going (Royal Festival Hall/Southbank Centre) and Blizzard (Soho Theatre). She wrote and directed Meeting Helen for FilmFour and directed the prize-winning short film Between the Wars, and has written the radio plays Pianoman, The Bigg Market, Babylove and Home to the Black Sea for BBC Radio 4. Her acting credits include Oliver Twist, The Full Monty, Velvet Goldmine, The Woodlanders, Pandaemonium, Vera and Mothering Sunday. She lives in London with her husband and two children....

Sommaire:
Emily Woof is a writer, actor and director from Newcastle Upon Tyne who has written for stage, screen and radio. Her first two novels, The Whole Wide Beauty (2010) and The Lightning Tree (2015), were published by Faber to wide acclaim. Her plays include Sex III, Revolver, Going Going (Royal Festival Hall/Southbank Centre) and Blizzard (Soho Theatre). She wrote and directed Meeting Helen for FilmFour and directed the prize-winning short film Between the Wars, and has written the radio plays Pianoman, The Bigg Market, Babylove and Home to the Black Sea for BBC Radio 4. Her acting credits include Oliver Twist, The Full Monty, Velvet Goldmine, The Woodlanders, Pandaemonium, Vera and Mothering Sunday. She lives in London with her husband and two children....