''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.
The book describes itself (in its subtitle) as "a graphic novel", but anyone expecting a
graphic novel
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in the
comic book
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tradition will be surprised: the novel is a graphic novel in the sense that it has been constructed visually from cutouts of various '60s women's magazines. The medium of the novel creates different layers of meaning within the plot, leading to insightful, hilarious, and often heartbreaking moments.
Construction
The novel contains a short postscript in which the author discusses the process of creating a novel entirely by
cut-and-paste
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. 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
''Woman's World''described on Graham Rawle's official website
* Reviews:
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Review in ''Observer'' newspaper*
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2005 British novels
English novels
Atlantic Books books
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