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Stag Dance

From the bestselling author of Detransition, Baby
By Torrey Peters
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‘Spellbinding ... I loved this book’ Brit Bennett, New York Times-bestselling author of The Vanishing Half ‘Peters confronts the unruliness of our desires’ New Yorker Detransition, Baby thrilled readers with its sharp, contemporary vision of family, gender and romance. Now Torrey Peters is back with a... Read More
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Trans life past, present and future is explored in this provocative follow-up to the Sunday Times bestseller Detransition, Baby

Trans life past, present and future is explored in this kaleidoscopic follow-up to the Women's Prize-nominated Detransition, Baby

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‘Spellbinding ... I loved this book’ Brit Bennett, New York Times-bestselling author of The Vanishing Half

‘Peters confronts the unruliness of our desires’ New Yorker

Detransition, Baby thrilled readers with its sharp, contemporary vision of family, gender and romance. Now Torrey Peters is back with a bold exploration of trans identity through the ages.

From the adventures of a lonely logger who, deep in the forest, joins his workmates to dance dressed as a woman, to an obsessive boarding-school romance, to the dizzying spectacle of a gender apocalypse brought about by an unstable ex-girlfriend, Peters' keen eye for the rough edges of trans community and desire reveals fresh possibilities.

Acidly funny and breathtaking in its scope, with the inventive audacity of Lauren Groff or Jennifer Egan, Stag Dance provokes, unsettles and delights.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781800810792

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 March 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Serpent's Tail

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 144.0mm

Height: 222.0mm

Weight: 420g

Pages: 304

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Dystopian Fiction Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Torrey Peters

About the Author

Torrey Peters' first novel, Detransition, Baby won the PEN/ Hemingway Award 2022 and was shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Critics' Circle John Leonard Prize for best first book. A Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller, it was longlisted for the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction.

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