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Biography of X : a novel / Catherine Lacey.
"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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374606176
- ISBN: 037460617X
- Physical Description: 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-389). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Regarding Mr. Smith -- Letters -- 1989 -- Montana -- The southern territory -- Caroline -- Ted Gold -- Connie -- Oleg Hall -- Downtown -- Connie, again -- Europe -- Gioia -- Knife fight -- Zebulon -- Ginny Green -- Disappearing -- The Human Subject -- Marion -- Schuster -- The Coma Game -- A bad year, a good year -- Strangers -- Salif and Midori -- Documentary -- 1995 -- Santa Fe -- Retrospective -- November 11, 1996 |
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| Subject: | Artists > Fiction. Widows > Fiction. Secrecy > Fiction. Grief > Fiction. Lesbians > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Queer fiction. Lesbian fiction. Novels. Alternative histories (Fiction) |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| North Kansas City Public Library | FICTION LACEY 2023 (Text) | 0001012508840 | Fiction | In transit | - |
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