![]() ![]() But to be part of X’s life was to be “fortunate”. CM admits that early on in their relationship she saw in X “an uncommon brutality, something she used both in defence and vengeance”. She was a trickster, working and living under pseudonyms and in disguises, and a provocateur who didn’t take kindly to being questioned. X, we discover, was an avant-garde polymath, a renowned novelist, musician and artist. The novel mimics biographical writing: inside Biography of X by Catherine Lacey we find a title page for “Biography of X” by CM Lucca, X’s widow. After all, we read a biography primarily to learn about a person. The premise here – at least at first – is to explain X and her life. In the earlier book, the stranger remains a puzzle. ![]() Lacey uses them to test the tolerance of the small American town to which they are a total stranger.īiography of X, the Mississippi-born author’s fourth novel, is just as peculiar, but is in many ways Pew’s opposite. In Catherine Lacey’s novel Pew, the protagonist wakes up during a Sunday church service with no memory of who they are or where they have come from. ![]()
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