<p>A jewel of a novel by New York Times-bestselling author Claire Messud\nWhen the Armstrong family moves from New York at the dawn of the 1970s, Australia feels, to Alice Armstrong, like the end of the earth. Residing in a grand manor on the glittering Sydney Harbour, her family finds their life has turned upside down. As she navigates this strange new world, Alice must weave an existence from its shimmering mirage.\nLies and self-deception are at the heart of this keenly observed story. This is a sharp, biting, and playful tale with a cast of unscrupulous characters adrift in a dream life of their own making. Written with the characteristic delicacy of touch, humor, and emotional insight that make Claire Messud one of our greatest writers.\n“A novelist of unnerving talent.” —The New York Times Book Review\n“[Messud is] among our greatest contemporary writers.” —The New Yorker\n“A perfect frolic of a book, puffed on breezes of beauty and wit: it waltzes you through a little fear, a little darkness, and tips you out, refreshed and laughing, into the sun.” —Helen Garner</p>

A Dream Life (Short Books by Great Women Writers)

Literature & Fiction

MESSUD, Claire

Humor & Satire

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<p>A visual essay, a poem, a study of Princess Diana, image, celebrity, and identity.\nArtist and writer Leanne Shapton has painted Princess Diana from the hundreds of photographs of her getting out of cars, examining her iconography and meaning in gesture and form.\nIn Cars: On Diana is about photography, fidelity, facsimile, and where to hold the beheld. It is also an obsessive and loving collection of studies, abstracted and haunting.\n“Leanne Shapton is one of the most broadly creative and gifted people at work today; a true artist, both visual and verbal.” —David Rakoff\n“A strange and evocative poem, nesting in a sequence of paintings, both the art and the words examining Diana having her photograph taken getting out of cars - each path taking us inevitably to the final car ride. Like a gentler, kinder, J. G. Ballard, Leanne takes us on a journey into cars and iconography and the spirit of ecstasy.” —Neil Gaiman\n“Shapton is a wonder. By restricting herself to the narrowest of subject matters she has made something utterly new. Her essay-poem on Diana and cars is as elegant and resonant as her pictures. A fascinating, remarkable, beautiful book.” —Nick Laird\n“Through murk and blur, Shapton sucks the color from the too-familiar shapes and surfaces photographic images yield. She amplifies the overexposed surfaces we use to claim ownership of self and others; embedding us in photography’s vanishing games.” —Taryn Simon\n“In Cars is both a silent movie/flipbook and an essay/poem. Its major theme is Diana, but it identifies something specific and uncanny and universal: the pathos of glamour the lack of sovereignty that’s encoded in our paparazzi images of celebrity women.” —Adam Thirlwell\n“Leanne Shapton writes with such curiosity ruefulness intelligence and grace.” —Sheila Heti</p>

In Cars: On Diana (Short Books by Great Women Writers)

Arts & Photography

Shapton, Leanne

Individual Artists

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