My Death
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- Synopsis
- The November 2023 selection of the NYRB Classics Book ClubThe narrator of Lisa Tuttle&’s uncanny novella is a recent widow, a writer adrift. Not only has she lost her husband but her muse seems to have deserted her altogether. Her agent summons her to Edinburgh to discuss her next book. What will she tell him? At once the answer comes to her: she will write the biography of Helen Ralston, best known, if at all, as the subject of W.E. Logan&’s much-reproduced painting Circe, and the inspiration for his classic children&’s book, Hermine in Cloud-Land.But Ralston was a novelist and artist in her own right, though her writing is no longer in print and her most radical painting, My Death, deemed too unsettling—malevolent even—to be shown in public. Over the months that follow, Ralston proves an astonishingly cooperative subject, even as her biographer uncovers eerie resonances between the older woman&’s history and her own. Whose biography is she writing—really?
- Copyright:
- 2004
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781681377735
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781681377728
- Publisher:
- New York Review Books
- Date of Addition:
- 10/10/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Lisa Tuttle
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Horror, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Introduction by:
- Amy Gentry
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