Binding: Paperback
Description: Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2023 by Time (#1) Vulture and Publishers Weekly and one of the Best Books of 2023 by The New York Times the New Yorker NPR the Los Angeles Times Vanity Fair Esquire the Chicago Tribune Kirkus Lit Hub and Amazon. National Bestseller. Winner of the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the 2023 Brooklyn Library Prize a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize and longlisted for the PEN/ Faulkner Award and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice. A major novel and a notably audacious one. Dwight Garner The New York Times From one of our fiercest stylists a roaring epic chronicling the life times and secrets of a notorious artist. When X an iconoclastic artist writer and polarizing shape - shifter falls dead in her office her widow CM 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 knows where X was 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 and which finally in the present day is being forced into an uneasy reunification. A masterfully constructed literary adventure complete with original images assembled by X's widow Biography of X follows CM as she traces X's peripatetic trajectory over decades from Europe to the ruins of America's divided territories and through her collaborations and feuds with everyone from Bowie and Waits to Sontag and Acker. At last when she finally understands the scope of X's defining artistic project CM realizes her wife's deceptions were far crueler than she imagined. Pulsing with suspense and intellect while blending nonfiction and fiction Biography of X is a roaring epic that plumbs the depths of grief art and love. In her most ambitious novel yet Catherine Lacey pushes her craft to its highest level introducing us to an unforgettable character who in her tantalizing mystery shows us the fallibility of the stories we craft for ourselves.
Title: Biography Of X A Novel
Author(s): Lacey Catherine
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250321688
Pages: 416 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/19/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction