Nightshade

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext Eve sets out to live for her art and get out from behind the shadow of the men, with deadly results. Zusammenfassung 'Nightshade is a glorious novel... full of twisted sexuality, art and power' Observer Family life. Reputation. They took a lifetime to build and a second to wreck. Eve Laing, once the muse of an infamous painter, is now — forty years later — an artist herself. But she has sacrificed her career for her family and she resents the global success of her old college roommate. 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. This brilliant and timely novel explores sexual politics and asks 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? 'Brilliant and biting' Financial Times

Product details

• Authors: Annalena McAfee
• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.03.2020
• EAN: 9781787301948
• ISBN: 978-1-78730-194-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 240 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; New York, London, Greater London, FICTION / Women, FICTION / City Life, FICTION / Psychological, The arts, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, FICTION / Urban & Street Lit