Biography Of X Catherine Lacey by Catherine Lacey 9780374606176, 037460617X instant download after payment.

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, and secrets of a notorious artist

"It feels fairly rare for a novel to be hugely intelligent and moving and 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, 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 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 and a notably audacious one. Lacey is pulling from a deep reservoir. Beneath the counterfactuals, the glamour and squalor of Manhattan nightlife, and the mythologies bought and sold, she’s telling a love story of a broken sort... This book is about facing, and accepting, the things you didn’t want to know."  -  Dwight Garner, The New York Times

Pulsing with suspense and intellect while blending nonfiction and fiction, Biography of X is a roaring epic that plumbs the depths of grief, art, and 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 our