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Biography of X A Novel

Catherine Lacey

Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2023 by When X―an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter―falls dead in her office, her widow, CM, 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...

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It was called an edgy novel about a widow piecing together the truth about her artist wife, with cameo appearances by Patti Smith and Frank O'Hara.

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Catherine Lacy's novel The Biography of X is the story of a widow during what she calls the boneless days of her grief, trying to piece together the truth about her wife, an artist who called herself...

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It was called an edgy novel about a widow piecing together the truth about her artist wife, with cameo appearances by Patti Smith and Frank O'Hara.

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Catherine Lacy's novel The Biography of X is the story of a widow during what she calls the boneless days of her grief, trying to piece together the truth about her wife, an artist who called herself X, with reallife figures like Patti Smith and Frank O'Hara appearing on the pages.

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