Biography of X : a novel
Lacey, Catherine, 1985-2024
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When X - an iconoclastic artist, writer and polarizing shape-shifter - dies suddenly, her widow, wild with grief, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognised as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a tight grip on her life story. Not even CM, her wife, knew where X had been born, and in her quest to find out, she opens a Pandora's box of secrets, betrayals and destruction. All the while she immerses herself in the history of the Southern Territory, a fascist theocracy that split from the rest of the country after World War II, as it is finally, in the present day, forced into an uneasy reunification.
Main title:
Biography of X : a novel / Catherine Lacey.
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Imprint:
London : Granta, 2024.London : Granta, 2024.
Collation:
394 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781783789290 (pbk)
Language:
English
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BRN:
2896732