{"product_id":"the-new-animals-isbn-9781948980173","title":"The New Animals","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2018 Acorn Prize, New Zealand’s highest fiction award, Pip Adam’s\u003ci\u003e The New Animals \u003c\/i\u003eis a work of artistic ambition and political urgency.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in the Auckland  fashion scene in 2016, \u003ci\u003eThe New Animals\u003c\/i\u003e moves over the course of one night  through the hopes, misapprehensions, resentments, and regrets of a small  group of fashion-industry workers, divided by generation and class. The  young and rich act like nothing can touch them; the tired Gen-Xers feel  forever adrift. On this particularly stressful night, hairdressers,  patternmakers, stylists, and a makeup artist are tasked with preparing  for a last-minute photoshoot without clothes or clear directions. Caught  up in the small dramas of their lives, while around them the world is  fast becoming uninhabitable, the group toils against the impossible  pressure until one of them decides to break away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Like a twisted contemporary heir to Virginia Woolf’s \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Animals\u003c\/i\u003e is  a brilliant and unforgettable dive beneath the surface of life,  uncovering the common ground of humanity, as well as the common plight.“\u003ci\u003eThe New Animals\u003c\/i\u003e is a strange, remorseless, powerful book, leaving the reader drained, angry, and frightened. . . . Pip Adam is an intriguing writer. Dangerous. You’ll want to read everything she’s done.” —Joy Williams \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe New Animals\u003c\/i\u003e is a prescient novel centering on the beauty and fashion industries and the people who run (or are run by) them. It is a genre-jumping and layered novel, by turns hilarious and humane, then spiky with frustration and heartache.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe New Animals\u003c\/i\u003e by Pip Adam is a secretly speculative novel that follows a multi-generational group of people through one manic night in Auckland. . . . The novel’s central concern is how much a body can change. Can we change fast enough to keep up with our rapidly disintegrating world?” —\u003ci\u003eNecessary Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e “\u003ci\u003eThe New Animals \u003c\/i\u003ewas first published in 2017. The following year, it won the Acorn Foundation Prize for Fiction, New Zealand’s biggest book prize, its answer to the National Book Award. Prior to winning, reviews were scarce, and when the book was reviewed, the coverage was fairly negative. It got to the point where novelist Carl Shuker wrote an essay telling the country’s reviewers to open their eyes and realize that a master was at work. He asked, ‘What the fuck are we doing in this country when we are not reviewing and talking about this book?’ New Zealand’s literary community is a fairly small pond, and it’s not often that shots are fired so eagerly, so readily, into the crowd. But Shuker was right: Adam is undoubtedly one of the country’s best writers. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe New Animals\u003c\/i\u003e might not be an easy read, but it is an important one.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A less ambitious, less confident writer might not want to disorient their readers with such experimentation. But Pip Adam would rather have us experience these ideas and be inundated by them.\" —Clara Sankey, \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Thorny, funny, shocking, brilliant. Trust me when I tell you you have no idea where this novel is going.” —Dan Kois, author of \u003ci\u003eVintage Contemporaries\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eThe New Animals\u003c\/i\u003e is fiction that doesn’t sit still, that shifts  and shimmers as you read. It is in equal measure steely and  self-delighting; it has little mercy. . . . It is willing to leap into  the surreal in order to capture the weird violence and strangeness of  being alive in this post-colonial island nation in the 21st century.” —Anna Smaill, \u003ci\u003eNZ Listener\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “I held my breath while reading Pip Adam’s \u003ci\u003eThe New Animals\u003c\/i\u003e. As a writer, it was the type of book that makes you marvel at Adam’s fearlessness. I wanted to tell everybody about it. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe New Animals\u003c\/i\u003e is a dark book. But far from being unlikeable, its characters are  thrillingly and heartbreakingly alive. The book is a cry for human  emotion where human emotions are constantly being wiped clean. . . . It  left me stunned and heartbroken.” —Brannavan Gnanalingam, \u003ci\u003eThe Spinoff\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePip Adam\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three novels: \u003ci\u003eNothing to See\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), \u003ci\u003eThe New Animals\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), which won the Acorn Foundation Prize for Fiction, and \u003ci\u003eI'm Working on a Building\u003c\/i\u003e (2013); and the short story collection \u003ci\u003eEverything We Hoped For\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), which won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction in 2011. Adam makes the \u003ci\u003eBetter Off Read\u003c\/i\u003e podcast and lives in Wellington, New Zealand.","brand":"Dorothy, a publishing project","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304413745381,"sku":"NP9781948980173","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781948980173.jpg?v=1767740658","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-new-animals-isbn-9781948980173","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}