Corey Fah Does Social Mobility, Isabel Waidner
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility, Isabel Waidner
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Corey Fah Does Social Mobility

Author: Isabel Waidner

Narrator: Kit Griffiths

Unabridged: 4 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/27/2024


Synopsis

This is the story of Corey Fah, a writer who has hit the literary jackpot: their novel has just won the prize for the Fictionalization of Social Evils. But the actual trophy, and with it the funds, hovers peskily out of reach.

Neon-beige, with UFO-like qualities, the elusive trophy leads Corey, with their partner Drew and eight-legged companion Bambi Pavok, on a spectacular quest through their childhood in the Forest and an unlikely stint on reality TV.

Navigating those twin horrors, along with wormholes and time loops, Corey learns—the hard way—the difference between a prize and a gift.

Following the Goldsmiths Prize–winning Sterling Karat Gold, Isabel Waidner’s bold and buoyant new novel is about coming into one’s own, the labor of love, the tendency of history to repeat itself, and what ensues when a large amount of cultural capital is suddenly deposited in a place it has never been before.

“Buckle up! Corey Fah Does Social Mobility is a head-spinning, mind-bending roller coaster of fun, horror, and subversion. I love it.”—Kamila Shamsie

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on November 30, 2024

Shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke award I tested my theory on them, about the redistribution of cultural capital leading to irregularities in the space-time continuum, affecting disadvantaged prize recipients disproportionately. My first encounter with Isabel Waidner's work was in September 2017 whe......more

Goodreads review by Ben on April 27, 2023

Isabel Waidner was only familiar to me as the winner of the 2021 Goldsmith's Prize for their novel Sterling Karat Gold. This new novel was sold to me through a glowing review by Kamila Shamsie. With its title I had no idea what to expect, but I was intrigued and excited to discover a new literary vo......more

Goodreads review by Cody on April 21, 2025

Reader's Digest Version OR, 'Those "Down In The Well" (Bevis Frond) of Book Reviews and Need to Catch the Fuck Up' Review: Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, about Waidner should work for me on paper. The fact that it does, and does so strikingly, is testament to their idiosyncratic charm. To me, Waidner r......more

Goodreads review by Yahaira on July 18, 2023

This was definitely a book I read......more

Goodreads review by Siobhan on April 30, 2023

Corey Fah Does Social Mobility is an experimental novel, very much in Waidner's typical style, which explores writing, cultural capital and social mobility, trying to balance things in your life, reality TV, and an eight legged horror a bit like Bambi. Corey Fah has won a literary prize, but is unab......more