My Other Spruce and Maple Self - Couverture souple

Finlay, Susan

 
9781913430023: My Other Spruce and Maple Self
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1913430022 ISBN 13 : 9781913430023
Editeur : MOIST, 2021

Synopsis

"There was something so unreal about the neat Georgian houses opposite and the laurel ball trees in front of them that once again I saw England as a piece of antique porcelain. As something no longer used or displayed due to its unfashionable appearance and propensity to crack..." June 2016, and world-famous cellist and former "sexiest classical musician" Allegra Le Clef is suffering from a compound wrist fracture. Europe also crumbles... From the initial break in London, to the crisis in Athens, to trying and failing to patch things up in Amsterdam Allegra traverses the continent to the accompaniment of a Late Romantic soundtrack (plus Vangelis via Nigel Havers). When not sending emails to a BDSM obsessed catfish, or wondering whether a piece of Nazi jewellery might "lift one of my more sombre evening gowns," she attempts to ease her conscience by volunteering at a refugee centre known for its Syrian cuisine, yet remains oblivious to the numerous other personal and political disasters that are looming. Shocking, camp-and shockingly camp-My Other Spruce and Maple Self is nevertheless a profoundly sad book about a woman unable to come to terms with her own declining status, as well as that of the West.

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À propos de l?auteur

Susan Finlay is an artist and writer. Her work has been included in group shows and performances at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Whitechapel Gallery, and Camden Arts Centre among others. In 2016 she co-curated Inland Far, an exhibition inspired by Herbert Read's only novel and its relationship to Jung at the Herbert Read Gallery in Canterbury, and in 2018 Isadora, an exhibition based around the concept of a European salon at MoHA, Austin. In 2020 she was writer-in-residence at London's Freud Museum. My Other Spruce and Maple Self is her fourth novel.

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Éditeur
MOIST
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1913430022
ISBN 13 
9781913430023
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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