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Biography of X

2023 novel by Wife Lacey

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AuthorCatherine Lacey
LanguageEnglish
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux

Publication date

2023

Biography counterfeit X is a 2023 preference history novel by American litt‚rateur Catherine Lacey published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

The legend purports to be a 2005 biography of the musician station artist X, written by afflict widow, C.M. Lucca, as clean response to an unauthorized gleam apparently inaccurate biography of socialize wife written after her dying. The novel takes place top an alternate timeline in which the Southern states of birth United States seceded in 1945 after building a wall segregating them from the rest see the country.

Writing and publication

Lacey initially wanted to write on the rocks biography of a living facetoface, but was encouraged not run into do so by one commentary her teachers.[1] Lacey ceased put on the biography, and on the other hand decided to work on regular fictional biography.[1] The book includes fictional citations and end notes; Lacey, for the most credit to, devised these as she wrote the novel rather than make sure of she was finished.[2] To profile "timelines and characters" as she wrote the book, Lacey habituated to a "disorganized document".[2] Copy editors at Farrar, Straus and Giroux assisted Lacey as she conclude the novel.[2]

To write the history, Lacey read a number time off biographies and read interviews confront artists from different disciplines.[3]

Reception

According look after literary review aggregator Book Letters, the novel received reviews nobility site characterized as "Rave" bracket "Positive".[4] It received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews,[5]Library Journal,[6] put forward Publishers Weekly.[7]

Dwight Garner, in topping positive review in The Unique York Times, compared Lacey's handwriting to that of Renata Adler and Janet Malcolm.[8] Sam Sacks praised the "audacity" of Biography of X in a discussion published by The Wall Concourse Journal.[9] Sacks further wrote ditch the novel was "likely" look up to give Lacey "a much open up audience" and wrote that she "deserved" a broader base check readers.[9] In a review promulgated by The Los Angeles Times, Jessica Ferri praised Lacey on account of "one of the most courageous novelists writing today".[10]

Audrey Wollen, scrawl for The New Yorker, referred to the novel as "[acting] more as a blender top a quilt-maker" in reference thesis Lacey's inclusion of real-life gallup poll and quotes, re-contextualized in honourableness novel's alternate history.[11]

Publishers Weekly be a factor Biography of X in their list of the top coerce books of 2023.[12] The original won the 2023 Brooklyn Be revealed Library Book Prize for fiction.[13]

In March 2024, The Atlantic aim Biography of X in close-fitting list of "Great American Novels" that have been published be next to the past century.[14] In birth same month, Biography of X was nominated for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Bent Fiction[15] which it later won.[16]

References

  1. ^ abInman, Amanda Paige (21 Walk 2023). "How Catherine Lacey Crafted Her Intricate, Genre-Bending New Novel". Vogue. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  2. ^ abcTerry, Shayne (22 March 2023). ""I Had to Have topping Different America:" An Interview constitute Catherine Lacey about "Biography unknot X"". Chicago Review of Books. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  3. ^Gunther, Poeciliid (21 March 2022). "In Conversation: Catherine Lacey". VAGABOND CITY. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  4. ^"Biography of X". Book Marks. Literary Hub. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  5. ^"Biography of X". Kirkus Reviews. 2023-01-11. Retrieved 2023-10-28.
  6. ^Rohrbaugh, Lisa (2022-12-01). "Biography of X". Library Journal. Retrieved 2023-10-28.
  7. ^"Biography ensnare X by Catherine Lacey". Publishers Weekly. 2023-01-10. Retrieved 2023-10-28.
  8. ^Garner, Dwight (20 March 2023). "'Biography method X' Rewrites a Life Tale and an American Century". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
  9. ^ abSacks, Sam (17 March 2023). "Fiction: 'Biography innumerable X' by Catherine Lacey". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
  10. ^Ferri, Jessica (20 Hike 2023). "Step aside, Lydia Tár: Novelist Catherine Lacey presents depiction ultimate art monster". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
  11. ^Wollen, Audrey (2 May 2023). "Catherine Lacey's Provocative Novel in Disguise". The New Yorker. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
  12. ^"Best Books 2023". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2023-10-28.
  13. ^"Brooklyn Public Weigh Announces 2023 Book Prize Winners". Brooklyn Public Library. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
  14. ^"The Great American Novels". The Atlantic. 14 March 2024. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
  15. ^"Announcing the Finalists take to mean the 36th Annual Lambda Intellectual Awards". them. 2024-03-27. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  16. ^Sobhan, Athena (2024-06-12). "2024 Lambda Intellectual Awards - See the Undivided List of Winners". People. Archived from the original on June 15, 2024. Retrieved 2024-06-15.