Woman's World (novel)

Woman's World (novel)

infobox Book |
name = Woman's World
author = Graham Rawle
country = United Kingdom
language = English
genre = Fiction
publisher = Atlantic
release_date = 2005 (hardback); 2006 (paperback)
media_type = Print Hardback / Paperback
pages = 437 pp
isbn = ISBN 1-84-354368-0 (paperback); ISBN 1-84-354367-2 (hardback)

Woman's World is the title of a 2005 novel by Graham Rawle. It is unique for having been created entirely from fragments of text clipped from 1960s women's magazines.

Although the book describes itself (in its subtitle) as "a graphic novel", anyone expecting a graphic novel in the comic book tradition will be disappointed: there are few pictures used, and it is really only a graphic novel in the sense that it is a novel constructed graphically.

Construction

The novel contains a short postscript in which the author discusses the process of creating a novel entirely by cut-and-paste. He first drafted the novel in outline, then collated words, sentences and paragraphs from the original source material, storing them in catalogue files, before pasting each page together from the organised snippets. The pages were then scanned for mass publication.

External links

* [http://www.grahamrawle.com/books_womans/womansworld01.html Woman's World] described on Graham Rawle's official website
* Reviews:
** [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/08/27/bopb.xml&page=3 Review in Daily Telegraph newspaper]
** [http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,1592429,00.html Review in The Guardian newspaper]
** [http://www.grahamrawle.com/books_womans/reviews.html Further review excerpts, on the official website]


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