Biography of X
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2024
Granta Books (Verlag)
978-1-78378-929-0 (ISBN)
Granta Books (Verlag)
978-1-78378-929-0 (ISBN)
From one of America's fiercest stylists, a roaring epic novel chronicling the life, times and secrets of a notorious artist.
'Brilliant, astonishing' Chris Kraus
'Sly, brilliant, philosophically acute, bitingly funny, and a pure joy to spend hours with' Lauren Groff
When X - the iconoclastic artist, musician and writer - dies suddenly, CM, her widow, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. The story will lead her deep into the Southern Territory - a fascist theocracy that split from the rest of the USA after World War II - before revealing the full weight of X's secrets, and the depth of her betrayal.
'A thriller set against a backdrop of political intrigue, an elegy, an art world satire and a thought experiment too... One of the most interesting books you'll read this year...' Financial Times
'A profound novel about love and what it can license, about the toll - and maybe the con - of genius' Garth Greenwell
'Sprawling and ambitious... Strange and dystopian... This is a major novel' New York Times
'Brilliant, astonishing' Chris Kraus
'Sly, brilliant, philosophically acute, bitingly funny, and a pure joy to spend hours with' Lauren Groff
When X - the iconoclastic artist, musician and writer - dies suddenly, CM, her widow, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. The story will lead her deep into the Southern Territory - a fascist theocracy that split from the rest of the USA after World War II - before revealing the full weight of X's secrets, and the depth of her betrayal.
'A thriller set against a backdrop of political intrigue, an elegy, an art world satire and a thought experiment too... One of the most interesting books you'll read this year...' Financial Times
'A profound novel about love and what it can license, about the toll - and maybe the con - of genius' Garth Greenwell
'Sprawling and ambitious... Strange and dystopian... This is a major novel' New York Times
Catherine Lacey is the author of the novels Nobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers and Pew, and the short story collection Certain American States. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship. She has been shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and was named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, The Believer and elsewhere. Born in Mississippi, she is based in Chicago.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.03.2024 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 128 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 283 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78378-929-8 / 1783789298 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78378-929-0 / 9781783789290 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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