The next book to be featured this season on the Sara Cox Radio 2 Book Club is Contrapposto by Dave Eggers—twenty years in the making, a novel about art, life and the complicated beauty of both.
The book was released on 7 July and Dave’s interview with Sara is on BBC Sounds from Tuesday 20 October.
We have 10 copies to give away to one lucky book club – to enter, visit our offers page.
Not yet a member of Book Club Hub? Sign up now.
Contrapposto
Cricket is just a shy kid who likes drawing when he first meets Olympia. She’s older, more confident; she bullies him into some light vandalism and instantly he’s in love. When they’re together, they talk about their futures, how they’re going to travel the world, the beauty and rapture of art.
Then those futures start to arrive in unexpected ways, the years and decades pile up between them, the art world seduces and disappoints and frustrates them. And they have to figure out, again and again, what it is to be an artist, and who and what to love.
This is a wild and beautiful novel about two friends who believe they can change the world, if only they can start their own movement, dodge charlatans, remain open-eyed and open-hearted, avoid going mad, avoid
dying young of rare cancers, stay true to their ideals and never tire of beauty. Not easy, but not impossible, either.
About the author
Dave Eggers is the author of many books, among them The Every, The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, and The Museum of Rain. He is the cofounder of 826 National, a network of youth writing centers, and Voice of Witness, an oral history book series that illuminates the stories of those impacted by human rights crises. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Eggers has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is the recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the American Book Award and the Newbery Medal, for the most distinguished contribution to children’s literature with The Eyes and The Impossible.
Get involved
To hear all the author interviews and other Book Club features, subscribe to the BBC Sounds podcast.
Planning to buy Contrapposto for your book club? Buy books from Bookshop.org and support The Reading Agency and local bookshops at no extra cost to you.
Want to make sure you get the latest news? Follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram.
Never miss the latest book club news – sign up for our free monthly newsletter.
