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The strays : a novel / Emily Bitto.
Van Pelt Library PR9619.4.B588 S77 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bitto, Emily, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children of artists--Fiction.
- Children of artists.
- Communal living--Australia--Fiction.
- Communal living.
- Ambition--Fiction.
- Ambition.
- Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
- Dysfunctional families.
- Australia.
- Australia setting.
- FICTION / Coming of Age.
- FICTION / Historical.
- Coming of age.
- Local Subjects:
- FICTION / Coming of Age.
- FICTION / Historical.
- Ambition--Fiction.
- Communal living--Australia--Fiction.
- Australia.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 240 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Twelve, 2017.
- Summary:
- On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham. He and his wife are trying to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia by inviting other like-minded artists to live and work at their family home. Lily becomes infatuated with this wild, makeshift family and longs to truly be part of it. As the years pass, Lily observes the way the lives of these artists come to reflect the same themes as their art: Faustian bargains and spectacular falls from grace. Yet it's not Evan, but his daughters, who pay the price for his radicalism. An engrossing story of ambitions, sacrifice, and compromised loyalties. -- from Affirm Press.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Australia by Affirm Press in 2014"--Title page verso.
- Stella Prize, 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781455537723
- 1455537721
- OCLC:
- 949219241
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