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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Headshot is the story of the eight best teenage girl boxers in the United States, told over the two days of a championship tournament and structured as a series of face-offs. As the girls’ pasts and futures collide, the specific joy and violence of the sport comes to scorching life, and a portrait emerges of the desire, envy, perfectionism, madness and sheer physical pleasure that motivates each of these young women to fight. A portrait of girlhood, a coming-of-age novel and an extraordinarily vivid and immersive exploration of the intense, electric awareness and understanding we can have of our own bodies when focused on physical excellence and competition.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Rita
Bullwinkel

Rita Bullwinkel is the author of the 2024 Booker Longlisted novel Headshot (2024) and the short-story collection Belly Up, which won a 2022 Whiting Award. Her writing has been published in the White Review, BOMB NOON and Guernica, among others. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from MacDowell, Brown University, Vanderbilt University, Hawthornden Castle and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s, the Deputy Editor of The Believer, a Contributing Editor for NOON, and the creator of Oral Florist. She is an Assistant Professor of English at University of San Francisco.

Rita Bullwinkel is the author of the 2024 Booker Longlisted novel Headshot (2024) and the short-story collection Belly Up, which won a 2022 Whiting Award. Her writing has been published in the White Review, BOMB NOON and Guernica, among others. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from MacDowell, Brown University, Vanderbilt University, Hawthornden Castle and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s, the Deputy Editor of The Believer, a Contributing Editor for NOON, and the creator of Oral Florist. She is an Assistant Professor of English at University of San Francisco.

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NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

This was published as a debut novel straight to paperback and is proving to be constantly on our purchase alert and reservation lists.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Date published
12/03/2024
Country
United States
Original Language
English
Publisher
Viking, Penguin Putnam
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