Biography of X: A Novel
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A masterfully constructed literary adventure, Biography of X follows a grieving wife seeking to understand the woman who enthralled her from one of our fiercest stylists. A roaring epic chronicling the life, times, & secrets of a notorious artist
"It feels fairly rare for a novel to be hugely intelligent & moving & fun in equal measure, but with Biography of X, Catherine Lacey somehow - magically - makes the nearly impossible look easy." — Lauren Groff
When X - an iconoclastic artist, writer, & polarizing shape-shifter - falls dead in her office, her widow, wild with grief & 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, & in her quest to find out, she opens 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.
"This is a major novel & a notably audacious one. Lacey is pulling from a deep reservoir. Beneath the counterfactuals, the glamour & squalor of Manhattan nightlife, & the mythologies bought & sold, she’s telling a love story of a broken sort... This book is about facing, & accepting, the things you didn’t want to know." — Dwight Garner, NY Times
Pulsing with suspense & intellect while blending nonfiction & fiction, Biography of X is a roaring epic that plumbs the depths of grief, art, & love. In her most ambitious novel yet, Catherine Lacey pushes her craft to its highest level, introducing us to an unforgettable character who, in her tantalizing mystery, shows us the fallibility of the stories we craft for ourselves.
A masterfully constructed literary adventure, Biography of X follows a grieving wife seeking to understand the woman who enthralled her from one of our fiercest stylists. A roaring epic chronicling the life, times, & secrets of a notorious artist
"It feels fairly rare for a novel to be hugely intelligent & moving & fun in equal measure, but with Biography of X, Catherine Lacey somehow - magically - makes the nearly impossible look easy." — Lauren Groff
When X - an iconoclastic artist, writer, & polarizing shape-shifter - falls dead in her office, her widow, wild with grief & 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, & in her quest to find out, she opens 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.
"This is a major novel & a notably audacious one. Lacey is pulling from a deep reservoir. Beneath the counterfactuals, the glamour & squalor of Manhattan nightlife, & the mythologies bought & sold, she’s telling a love story of a broken sort... This book is about facing, & accepting, the things you didn’t want to know." — Dwight Garner, NY Times
Pulsing with suspense & intellect while blending nonfiction & fiction, Biography of X is a roaring epic that plumbs the depths of grief, art, & love. In her most ambitious novel yet, Catherine Lacey pushes her craft to its highest level, introducing us to an unforgettable character who, in her tantalizing mystery, shows us the fallibility of the stories we craft for ourselves.
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Biography of X: A Novel
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A masterfully constructed literary adventure, Biography of X follows a grieving wife seeking to understand the woman who enthralled her from one of our fiercest stylists. A roaring epic chronicling the life, times, & secrets of a notorious artist
"It feels fairly rare for a novel to be hugely intelligent & moving & fun in equal measure, but with Biography of X, Catherine Lacey somehow - magically - makes the nearly impossible look easy." — Lauren Groff
When X - an iconoclastic artist, writer, & polarizing shape-shifter - falls dead in her office, her widow, wild with grief & 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, & in her quest to find out, she opens 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.
"This is a major novel & a notably audacious one. Lacey is pulling from a deep reservoir. Beneath the counterfactuals, the glamour & squalor of Manhattan nightlife, & the mythologies bought & sold, she’s telling a love story of a broken sort... This book is about facing, & accepting, the things you didn’t want to know." — Dwight Garner, NY Times
Pulsing with suspense & intellect while blending nonfiction & fiction, Biography of X is a roaring epic that plumbs the depths of grief, art, & love. In her most ambitious novel yet, Catherine Lacey pushes her craft to its highest level, introducing us to an unforgettable character who, in her tantalizing mystery, shows us the fallibility of the stories we craft for ourselves.
A masterfully constructed literary adventure, Biography of X follows a grieving wife seeking to understand the woman who enthralled her from one of our fiercest stylists. A roaring epic chronicling the life, times, & secrets of a notorious artist
"It feels fairly rare for a novel to be hugely intelligent & moving & fun in equal measure, but with Biography of X, Catherine Lacey somehow - magically - makes the nearly impossible look easy." — Lauren Groff
When X - an iconoclastic artist, writer, & polarizing shape-shifter - falls dead in her office, her widow, wild with grief & 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, & in her quest to find out, she opens 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.
"This is a major novel & a notably audacious one. Lacey is pulling from a deep reservoir. Beneath the counterfactuals, the glamour & squalor of Manhattan nightlife, & the mythologies bought & sold, she’s telling a love story of a broken sort... This book is about facing, & accepting, the things you didn’t want to know." — Dwight Garner, NY Times
Pulsing with suspense & intellect while blending nonfiction & fiction, Biography of X is a roaring epic that plumbs the depths of grief, art, & love. In her most ambitious novel yet, Catherine Lacey pushes her craft to its highest level, introducing us to an unforgettable character who, in her tantalizing mystery, shows us the fallibility of the stories we craft for ourselves.
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