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The
2004 Award
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Black
Mirror by
Gail Jones |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Victoria
Morrell was once a great artist. She led the high life - living and working
in Paris in the 1920s, mixing with the artists of the Surrealist movement.
Her work was largely forgotten in the fifties and sixties, but was rediscovered
in the seventies when she became something of a cult figure in the London
art scene. She now lives as a recluse in Hampstead, London. And she is dying.
Anna Griffin is the young woman commissioned to write a biography of Victoria's life. In many ways their lives strangely intersect, since they grew up in the same town and share preoccupations with underground spaces, deserts and the many forms of grief. In a compelling double narrative, Gail Jones tracks Victoria's past as it intertwines with Anna's life. The stories Victoria tells - the 'black mirror' stories - enable both women to enter into new forms of sympathy and understanding. Elegant, enthralling, and emotionally charged, Black Mirror is both a novel of love and family mystery, and a meditation on the nature of artistic vision and obsession. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Gail Jones was born in Western Australia and currently teaches in the Department of English, Communications and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia. She is the author of The House of Breathing (1991)) and Fetish Lives 1997), which have been translated into several languages and for which she won several awards. Black Mirror, her first novel, won the Western Australian's Premier Book Award for Fiction 2002 |
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