Black Mirror

Gail Jones

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Vintage
01 June 2009

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Australian Fiction

'I am waiting for this visitor so that I can tell my story and die.' The award-winning novel from Gail Jones

'I am waiting for this visitor so that I can tell my story and die.' The award-winning novel from Gail Jones

Victoria Morrell was once a great artist. She led the high life - living and working in Paris, 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 on 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 mining 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 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.

By: Gail Jones
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 254g
ISBN: 9781741668544
ISBN 10: 1741668549
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 June 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gail Jones is the author of two short-story collections, a critical monograph, and the novels Black Mirror, Sixty Lights, Dreams of Speaking and Sorry. Twice shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, her prizes include the WA Premier's Award for Fiction, the Nita B. Kibble Award, the Steele Rudd Award, the Age Book of the Year Award, the Adelaide Festival Award for Fiction and the ASAL Gold Medal.

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Black Mirror

Gail Jones

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