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Headshot: A Novel

Rita Bullwinkel

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Headshot won the Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and was named a Best Book of 2024 by The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Time, Elle, Vulture, Lit Hub, and The Guardian. An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family's unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or stop; to be frighteningly, undeniably good at something. Each of the eight teenage girl boxers in this blistering debut novel has her own reasons for the sacrifices she has made to come to Reno, Nevada, to compete to be named the best in the country. Through a series of face-offs that are raw, ecstatic, and punctuated by flashes of humor and tenderness, prizewinning writer Rita Bullwinkel animates the competitors' pasts and futures as they summon the emotion, imagination, and force of will required to win. Frenetic, surprising, and strikingly original, Headshot is a portrait of the desire, envy, perfectionism, madness, and sheer physical pleasure that motivate young women to fight—even, and perhaps especially, when no one else is watching.

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Publisher
Penguin
Year
2024
ISBN-13
9780593654118
Genre
FictionYoung Adult
Topics
Competition and ambitionComing of ageFemale physicality and identity

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