Biography of X: a novel

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Author(s): Lacey, Catherine Binding: Paperback, Date of Publication: 04/04/2024, Pagination: 416 pages, ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781783789290, Description: And when she finally understands the scope of X's defining artistic project, CM realises her wife's deceptions were far crueller than she imagined. 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. fm/thefeministbookshop And we're updating this list every week. “It feels fairly rare for a novel to be hugely intelligent and moving and fun in equal measure, but with Biography of X, Catherine Lacey somehow―magically―makes the nearly impossible look easy. National Bestseller. 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. A masterfully constructed counterfactual epic novel chronicling the life, times and secrets of a notorious artist.