000			02114cam a22004458i 4500
001			on1310768996
003			OCoLC
005			20230327142002.0
008			221108s2023 nyu e b 000 1 eng
010			_a 2022053340
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCF _dLJW _dCCPLG _dRNL _dVP@ _dNFG
020			_a9780374606176 _q(hardcover)
020			_a037460617X
035			_a(OCoLC)1310768996
042			_apcc
092			_aLACEY, _bCATHERIN
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aLacey, Catherine, _d1985- _eauthor. _9253750
245	1	0	_aBiography of X : _ba novel / _cCatherine Lacey.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2303
264		1	_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, _c2023.
300			_a394 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 377-389).
520			_a"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.
650		0	_aArtists _vFiction. _913480
650		0	_aWidows _vFiction. _945887
650		0	_aSecrecy _vFiction.
650		0	_aGrief _vFiction. _944611
650		0	_aLesbians _vFiction. _931514
655		7	_aAlternative histories (Fiction) _2lcgft _951301
655		7	_aQueer fiction. _2lcgft
655		7	_aLesbian fiction. _2lcgft _9304818
655		7	_aNovels. _2lcgft _92408
655		0	_aLGBTQ+.
994			_aC0 _bNFG
999			_c364173 _d364173