Biography of X : a novel /
When X, an iconoclastic artist, writer and polarizing shape-shifter, falls dead in her office, her widow, wild with grief and refusing everyone's good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognized as a crucial creative force of her era, she kep...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2023].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | When X, an iconoclastic artist, writer and polarizing shape-shifter, falls dead in her office, her widow, wild with grief and refusing everyone's good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognized 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780374606176 037460617X |