Biography of X : a novel /
Lacey, Catherine, 1985-
Biography of X : a novel / Catherine Lacey. - First edition. - 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-389).
"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." -- Publisher annotation.
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Artists--Fiction.
Widows--Fiction.
Secrecy--Fiction.
Grief--Fiction.
Lesbians--Fiction.
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Queer fiction.
Lesbian fiction.
Novels.
LGBTQ+.
Biography of X : a novel / Catherine Lacey. - First edition. - 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-389).
"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." -- Publisher annotation.
9780374606176 037460617X
2022053340
Artists--Fiction.
Widows--Fiction.
Secrecy--Fiction.
Grief--Fiction.
Lesbians--Fiction.
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Queer fiction.
Lesbian fiction.
Novels.
LGBTQ+.