Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Boy Parts
    Unavailable
    Boy Parts
    Unavailable
    Boy Parts
    Ebook290 pages4 hours

    Boy Parts

    By Eliza Clark

    4/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    ‘Hallucinogenic, electric and sharp, Boy Parts is a whirlwind exploration of gender, class and power.’

    – Jessica Andrews


    Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle.

    Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina’s relationship with her obsessive best-friend, and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention….

    Boy Parts is the incendiary debut novel from Eliza Clark, a pitch-black comedy both shocking and hilarious, fearlessly exploring the taboo regions of sexuality and gender roles in the twenty-first century.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInflux Press
    Release dateJul 23, 2020
    ISBN9781910312643
    Unavailable
    Boy Parts
    Author

    Eliza Clark

    Eliza Clark is the co-creator of Foxfire Mountain House, an inn in the Catskills, NY, with her husband Tim. Formerly a television showrunner and writer, Eliza has had a lifelong passion for interior design, and her designs for Foxfire have been featured in Vogue, Domino, Elle, Remodelista, Apartment Therapy, House & Garden, Goop, and Condé Nast Traveler, among others. Tim Trojian is the co-creator of Foxfire Mountain House, an inn in the Catskills, NY, with his wife, Eliza. He has worked in kitchens for more than thirty years, and for the past several years has worked as an executive chef and Food & Beverage director. Fresh, seasonal, and locally produced with global influences from Korea to Sweden, Tim's dishes are inspired by the ingredients he finds. He secretly thrives on limitations and swears many of his best dishes came from cleaning out the fridge.

    Read more from Eliza Clark

    Related to Boy Parts

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Lapvona By Ottessa Moshfegh Review – A Carnival Of The Grotesque

      Jun 14, 2022

      There’s something encouraging, and perhaps telling, about Ottessa Moshfegh’s success. Her abject, pervy, excremental fictions carry a whiff of deviance and nihilism into a squeaky clean mainstream that comforts some while alienating others. Although

      3 min read

    • Article

      I Was a Public Schooler

      Jun 9, 2020

      The application to Waverley Glen Academy required that I spend a day sitting in on freshman classes and mixing with the student body to see how well I’d fit in. I was twelve. Picture the gleaming wooden corridors, the Persian rugs, the monogrammed si

      14 min read

    • Article

      Does Flirting Really Get You Ahead?

      Feb 28, 2023

      Despite being single, I’ve never been very big on flirting. In all honesty, I’ve never been that good at it. But after a recent study published in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes revealed that it is actually men who u

      4 min read

    • Article

      Righteous

      Jan 22, 2019

      Righteous
      8 min read

    • Article

      The Leather Coat

      Apr 4, 2024

      The Leather Coat
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Bystander

      Jan 7, 2021

      The Bystander
      5 min read

    • Article

      Soggy CHIPS

      Oct 19, 2022

      Soggy CHIPS
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Blind Dates

      Mar 15, 2021

      I spot him immediately when I walk into the bar. He smiles at me like he knows me, despite the fact this is a blind date and we’ve never met before. Nerves take hold of my body and my hands begin to tremble as I approach him. “Hi,” he says. “Hi, um,

      5 min read

    • Article

      Mature Adults In Your Area

      Aug 8, 2022

      I would say that I don’t normally do this kind of thing, except that on and off over the months and years, I’ve done “these kinds of things” too many times for that to be true. So yeah, I go on dates from time to time. This recent guy wouldn’t choose

      6 min read

    • Article

      We Don't Talk About That Here

      Nov 4, 2021

      We Don't Talk About That Here
      4 min read

    • Article

      Three Blocks

      Aug 10, 2023

      I lock my car and shove my keys into the pocket of my big coat. The parking garage is nearly full this morning, so I have to use the elevator to get down to the exit. The moment the doors slide open, there is a woman waiting for me. She is wearing my

      8 min read

    • Article

      Shame Is Ever-Present When You’re Sitting in a Cell

      Oct 23, 2020

      Between a strained relationship with my family and the death of a good friend, I’ve struggled to feel like I’m worth something.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Festival

      Sep 15, 2018

      My husband, who loved festivals, who was a great fan of festivals, wanted to get to the square in time for the first band at eleven o’clock. From bed, the dog and I watched him dress. He tried on various T-shirts, declaring some of them too tight and

      13 min read

    • Article

      Time Invents Us

      Sep 29, 2020

      Time Invents Us
      14 min read

    • Article

      The Night That Changed Me

      May 12, 2021

      The Night That Changed Me
      8 min read

    • Article

      A Perfect Match

      Apr 5, 2021

      It’s my sister’s fault that I’m standing outside a hair salon on the Saturday of my anniversary, too scared to go in. I’m not sure I was this nervous on my actual wedding day. Androulla had been bugging me for months that my look needed “updating” an

      7 min read

    • Article

      The Escaped Jaguar

      May 9, 2019

      The Escaped Jaguar
      5 min read

    • Article

      ANGER Mismanagement

      Feb 9, 2020

      Mr Stable has asked me to pick up his drycleaning, as he’s going to ‘babysit’ at his ex-wife’s apartment, while she attends a tango class. “Maybe she’ll find a new love?” I’m a sucker for happy endings, so I can’t help hoping that his ex-wife will fi

      3 min read

    • Article

      Come with Me

      Dec 1, 2022

      Come with Me
      12 min read

    • Article

      A Hard Man To Forget

      Jan 8, 2024

      A Hard Man To Forget
      4 min read

    • Article

      Miracles Come in Moments

      Sep 24, 2022

      “You’re not getting any younger, you know,” Grammy said. “You’re 30 years old! For goodness’ sake, why aren’t you married yet?” I winced. I’d come to this restaurant to have lunch with my grandmother, not to be interrogated about my love life—or lack

      3 min read

    • Article

      Side Gig

      Aug 8, 2019

      Side Gig
      6 min read

    Reviews for Boy Parts

    4/5

    144 ratings12 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      Disturbing in all the right ways. This story follows a narcissistic sociopath of an artist who continues to push the boundaries of everyone around her and eventually, her own.
    • 4/5
      What a terrible, awful, excellent little book. Engrossing. Also just gross.
    • 5/5
      Jarring, disturbing, but incredibly loud about treatment of women. I couldn't stop reading it.
    • 2/5
      W T F DID I JUST READ???? I am disturbed like really disturbed

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Hey guys I like reading books so I am going to read this one @alanna

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Crazy, I didn’t know what I was getting myself into.Picked it up because I saw a recommendation.Didn’t expect the boy parts.Crazy I loved it

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      wow I'm so glad I went into this without knowing anything about the plot. This was a wild ride and I am always here for an unhinged girly. I was genuinely surprised by this book and that rarely happens anymore.

      also my favorite quote in the book bc I think this is so funny.

      I watch the young white people dance badly to the bloated old racist’s music while I wait to get served. This is a white-as-fuck club, and I like… I know I’m white, but there’s just a lot of white people White People-ing in a very small area, like it’s just some very, very densely packed mayo, you know? Densely packed mayo, jiggling about, doesn’t know what to do with its feet, undulating loosely, barely in time to the rhythm"



      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I wish it had a more cathartic ending but its enjoyable and extremely dark

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      idc i love it. i love reading about clinically insane and immoral protagonists

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Sort of trippy, but with some kind of a central idea. I don't know if this novel wanted to be American Psycho while growing up, but it didn't get there, and that's good. Ambivalent towards it, hence 3 stars.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Nice to kill some time, but first it transmits a fat phobia vibe, a bit racist and seems like the author has a problem with females at some point that I actually feel bad of how mean and offensive she is either her supposedly best friend and in not even one part of the book is there a woman that she considers close to beautiful, but all the way goes to make everyone flawed except her again supposedly Amazonian self

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Eliza Clarke made the news around the launch of Boy Parts (Influx Press) this summer with the quote: “I'm from Newcastle and working class. To publishers, I'm diverse…”. In her 26 years Eliza has worked for Mslexia magazine in her native Newcastle, received a grant from New Writing North to develop her creative writing, and studied at Chelsea College of Art in London. This her first novel, and what an entertaining, brassy ride it is! Its main figure is Irina who asks boys she meets to model for her as she takes their explicit and taboo photographs in the hope of constructing a gallery project which could be the making of her but is always likely to be dynamited by her own actions. Irina is massively flawed and self-defeating but she’s perversely engaging, definitely alternative and never boring. The dedication is “For my mother and father. Please don’t read this.” which gives you a clue as to its edginess, but this is also a confident and punchy debut novel and Eliza Clark is one to watch.