Lote / Shola von Reinhold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

von Reinhold, Shola, 1993- author.

Series:

Twenty in 2020

Twenty in 2020 ; Black writers, British voices

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual minority culture--Fiction.

Sexual minority culture.

Art--Fiction.

Art.

Europe--Fiction.

Europe.

LGBTQ+ culture.

LGBTQ+ people.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Novels.

LGBTQ+ fiction

Physical Description:

460 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd, 2020.

Summary:

"Solitary Mathilda has long been enamored with the 'Bright Young Things' of the 20s, and throughout her life, her attempts at reinvention have mirrored their extravagance and artfulness. After discovering a photograph of the forgotten Black modernist poet Hermia Druitt, who ran in the same circles as the Bright Young Things that she adores, Mathilda becomes transfixed and resolves to learn as much as she can about the mysterious figure. Her search brings her to a peculiar artists' residency in Dun, a small European town Hermia was known to have lived in during the 30s. The artists' residency throws her deeper into a lattice of secrets and secret societies that takes hold of her aesthetic imagination, but will she be able to break the thrall of her Transfixions? From champagne theft and Black Modernisms, to art sabotage, alchemy and lotus-eating proto-luxury communist cults, Mathilda's journey through modes of aesthetic expression guides her to truth and the convoluted ways it is made and obscured." --publisher's web site, viewed 2/1/21

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781913090111

1913090116

OCLC:

1132277727

Publisher Number:

99988705423