This record has been deleted from the database. We recommend that you remove this title from any lists it may have been added to.
The strays : a novel / Emily Bitto.
On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham. He and his wife are trying to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia by inviting other like-minded artists to live and work at their family home. Lily becomes infatuated with this wild, makeshift family and longs to truly be part of it. As the years pass, Lily observes the way the lives of these artists come to reflect the same themes as their art: Faustian bargains and spectacular falls from grace. Yet it's not Evan, but his daughters, who pay the price for his radicalism. An engrossing story of ambitions, sacrifice, and compromised loyalties. -- from Affirm Press.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781455537723
- ISBN: 1455537721
- Physical Description: 240 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First U.S. hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Twelve, c2017.
- Copyright: c2014
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Originally published in Australia by Affirm Press in 2014"--Title page verso. |
Awards Note: | Stella Prize, 2015 |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Children of artists > Fiction. Communal living > Australia > Fiction. Ambition > Fiction. Dysfunctional families > Fiction. |