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Lacey, Catherine, 1985-

Biography of X : a novel / Catherine Lacey. - First edition. - 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages [377]-389).

"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." -- Publisher annotation.

ISBN: 9780374606176 037460617X

LCCN: 2022053340

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Artists--Fiction
Widows--Fiction
Secrecy--Fiction
Grief--Fiction
Lesbians--Fiction

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Queer fiction
Lesbian fiction
Novels

LC Class. No.: PS3612.A335 / B56 2023

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.6