Nightshade [electronic resource]
McAfee, Annalena2020
eAudioBook
Brought to you by Penguin. Family life. Reputation. It took a lifetime to build and a second to wreck. Only her work remains. Eve Laing, once the muse of an infamous painter, is now — forty years later — an artist herself. But she feels she has sacrificed her career for her family and she resents the global success of her old college roommate, now a celebrity of the international conceptual art scene. When Eve embarks on her most ambitious work yet, she takes a wrecking ball to her comfortable life, jettisoning her marriage for a beautiful young lover, a drifter half her age, who seems to share her single-minded creative vision. Nightshade charts Eve's nocturnal walk through London, from her former family home in the west of the city back to her studio, a converted factory in the east, where her recently completed masterpiece hangs and a fatal reckoning awaits. This brilliant and timely novel explores sexual politics and the excesses of the contemporary art world, asking if the true artist must relinquish the ordinary human need for love and connection. Can the creative urge be the most destructive — even deadliest — impulse of all? © Annalena McAfee 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Main title:
Nightshade [electronic resource] / Annalena McAfee
Author:
McAfee, Annalena, AuthorMaud, Jane, Narrator
Work:
Edition:
Unabridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Random House, 2020
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
Biography/History:
Annalena McAfee (Author) Annalena McAfee is the author of two novels, The Spoiler and Hame. She founded the Guardian Review, which she edited for six years, and was Arts and Literary Editor of the Financial Times.
ISBN:
9781473577220
Language:
English
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BRN:
362326