TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murray,Ruby J.
TI  - The biographer's lover
SN  - 9781863959421
U1  - 823.4 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Carlton, Vic
PB  - Black Inc., an imprint of Schwartz Publishing Pty Ltd
KW  - Novel
KW  - English
KW  - Australia
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Texts
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women painters
KW  - Victoria
KW  - Geelong
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Painters
KW  - Women biographers
KW  - Biographers
KW  - fast
KW  - Geelong (Vic.)
KW  - Australian
KW  - Australian stories
KW  - Historical fiction
N2  - Why has no one heard of Edna Cranmer? When a young writer is hired to put together the life of an unknown artist from Geelong, of all places, she thinks it will be just another quick commission paid for by a rich, grieving family obsessed with their own past. But Edna Cranmer was not a privileged housewife with a paintbrush. Edna's work spans decades. Her soaring images of red dirt, close interiors and distant jungles have the potential to change the way the nation views itself. Edna could have been an official war artist. Did she choose to hide herself away? Or were there people who didn't want her to be famous? As the biographer is pulled into Edna's life, she is confronted with the fact that how she tells Edna's past will affect her own future. This elegant and engrossing novel explores how we value and celebrate art and artists' lives. The Biographer's Lover reminds us that all memory is an act of curation
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