Womans World: A Novel Paperback Graham Rawle

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I'm not usually a fan of "artsy" books. My thought tends to be "if they need an artsy gimmick the writing is probably lacking". After reading Women's World by Graham Rawle I will not let that keep me away again! Written entirely with clippings from vintage 1960's women's magazines, the "artsy gim...

from AriadneAranea

Norma, a strange and unreliable protagonist, quite literally pieced together from women's magazines, yearns to burst out of the constrained house-bound life in which she has been forced to live since her "accident". But it soon becomes obvious that all is not as it seems and that, if she succeeds...

from ironicqueery

Woman's World is a marvelous novel constructed completely out of women's magazines from the 1960s. Each page is a collage of words and paragraphs put together in great detail by Graham Rawle. In itself, this is quite impressive. Add in a wonderful plot that flows easily despite the cut-up method ...

from ironicqueery

Woman's World is a marvelous novel constructed completely out of women's magazines from the 1960s. Each page is a collage of words and paragraphs put together in great detail by Graham Rawle. In itself, this is quite impressive. Add in a wonderful plot that flows easily despite the cut-up method ...

from soradsauce

I loved the graphic novel style - it took Rawle such a heinously long time to write this in magazine clippings. But, I knew the twist to the story by page 20, and it was a bit of a slog once I guessed the 'secret'. A good book, but I couldn't get into it once I had my suspicions confirmed.