Biography of X [electronic resource]
Catherine Lacey2023
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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.
A masterfully constructed, counter-factual literary adventure, complete with
original images assembled by X's widow, Biography of X follows a grieving wife
seeking to understand the woman who enthralled her. CM traces X's peripatetic
trajectory over decades, from Europe to the ruins of America's divided
territories, and t...
Main title:
Biography of X [electronic resource] / Catherine Lacey
Author:
Catherine Lacey, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Granta Books, 2023
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file) (387 MB, 14:06:44 H)
Performers:
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
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Platform: findawayMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781803510507
Language:
English
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BRN:
452543
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