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020			_a9781783789795
037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bCAT/BI
100			_aCatherine Lacey
245			_aBIOGRAPHY OF X
250			_a1
260			_aLondon _bGranta Publishers _c2023/01/01
300			_g394
500			_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. A masterfully constructed 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 through her collaborations and feuds with everyone from Bowie and Waits to Sontag and Acker. And when she finally understands the scope of X's defining artistic project, CM realizes her wife's deceptions were far crueler than she imagined."
650			_aDomestic fiction
650			_aFiction
650			_aLesbians
650			_aLesbians Fiction
650			_aPsychological fiction
942			_cLEN
942			_2ddc
999			_c190440 _d190440