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| Chris Savage King |
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| Chris Savage King |
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Do what you want is easier to attempt than achieve. In her first novel, Chris Savage King tracks an ambitious circle of friends starting out in their first jobs, including Jonathan (a city dealer), Maxine (an artist and waitress), Daniel (a tour guide) and Deanna (a food consultant). The world of the arts attracts idealists but is also a modern racket, ruthlessly marketed and Jonathan and Maxine's chosen careers have more in common than they at first realise. Work, inevitably, leaks into private life as raw ambition and softer sentiments clash. |
| Chris Savage King is a writer and performer. She left school at 16 to work, but later trained as a dancer and studied English. She has written for a range of publications from Marxism Today to Harpers & Queen. In 1996 she won the ICA award for writing for performance and has since performed in a variety of infamous venues. She is currently writing Britart, a book of cultural commentary, for Serpent's Tail. Do What You Want is her first novel. |
| Reviews of Chris Savage King's play What? So What? | ||
| "Raunchy, nasty and fucked up." | Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian | |
| "Deliciously brutal... Expertly structured, wonderfully bitter and explicit... Horribly excellent." | Evening Standard | |
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