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Self-Portrait with Boy by Lyon, Rachel
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- Binding
- Paperback
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- Product Group
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- ISBN
- 9781501169595
- Book Title
- Self-Portrait with Boy : a Novel
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, Contemporary Women, Literary, Coming of Age
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 10 oz
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize "Fabulously written, this spellbinding debut novel is a real page-turner. A powerful, brilliantly imagined story" ( Library Journal, starred review) about an ambitious young artist whose accidental photograph of a boy falling to his death could jumpstart her career, but devastate her most intimate friendship. Lu Rile is a relentlessly focused young photographer struggling to make ends meet. Working three jobs, responsible for her aging father, and worrying that her crumbling loft apartment is being sold to developers, she is at a point of desperation. One day, in the background of a self-portrait, Lu accidentally captures an image of a boy falling to his death. The photograph turns out to be startlingly gorgeous, the best work of art she's ever made. It's an image that could change her life...if she lets it. But the decision to show the photograph is not easy. The boy is her neighbors' son, and the tragedy brings all the building's residents together. It especially unites Lu with the boy's beautiful grieving mother, Kate. As the two forge an intense bond based on sympathy, loneliness, and budding attraction, Lu feels increasingly unsettled and guilty, torn between equally fierce desires: to advance her career, and to protect a woman she has come to love. Set in early 90s Brooklyn on the brink of gentrification, Self-Portrait with Boy is a "sparkling debut" ( The New York Times Book Review ) about the emotional dues that must be paid on the road to success and a powerful exploration of the complex terrain of female friendship. "The conflict is rich and thorny, raising questions about art and morality, love and betrayal, sacrifice and opportunism, and the chance moments that can define a life...It wrestles with the nature of art, but moves with the speed of a page-turner" ( Los Angeles Times ).
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Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1501169599
ISBN-13
9781501169595
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22038427472
Product Key Features
Book Title
Self-Portrait with Boy : a Novel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Contemporary Women, Literary, Coming of Age
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
10 oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3612.Y566s45 2018
Reviews
" Self-Portrait With Boy captures the furious beauty of a vanished New York, an irresistible whirlwind of passion, violence, love, struggle, and above all else, art. Rachel Lyon paints an unforgettable portrait of a true art monster--a young woman hellbent on pursuing greatness, no matter the cost." -- Robin Wasserman, author of Girls on Fire, "I read Rachel Lyon's sharp and achingly beautiful novel about art and fame and loneliness and death in a frenzy, full of a deep and urgent need. With this gorgeous debut, Lyon will unravel you and then stitch you together again as something entirely new." -- Manuel Gonzales, author of The Miniature Wife and Other Stories, "A haunting tale of how a singular, devastating event in the life of a young woman photographer changes the trajectory of her life and comes to define her utterly. Beautifully imagined and flawlessly executed, Self-Portrait With Boy will suggest, to some readers, the obsessive interiority of the great Diane Arbus, conjoined with an original and disturbing examination of the ill-defined borders between life and art." --Joyce Carol Oates, "A formidable novel, equal parts ghost story, love story, and riveting Bildungsroman. Full of big ideas about art and love and ambition, with prose so vivid it gives off sparks--this debut won me over completely. Chilling and beautiful, just like the work of the artist at the heart of the story." --Julie Buntin, author of Marlena, "Rachel Lyon navigates a spectrum of loyalty and betrayal like a tightrope-walker, with all of the attendant suspense. A life-changing moral choice powers this atmospheric novel which shows what can happen when you do what scares you most." -- Amy Hempel, " Striking...though it looks backward to the end of an era in New York, it's not at all nostalgic. Think the tough tone of something like Rachel Kushner's New York/Italian art and politics novel, The Flamethrowers, or Olivia Laing's atmospheric nonfiction book about New York, The Lonely City. Lyon's heroine, a young woman named Lu Rile who has just graduated from art school, is a bit like plain Jane Eyre, minus the moral compass... Self-Portrait With Boy is a smart novel about the narcissistic ambition that's needed to succeed, especially in the art world, especially in New York." -- Maureen Corrigan, NPR, "Fabulously written, this spellbinding debut novel is a real page-turner. A powerful, brilliantly imagined story not easily forgotten; highly recommended." -- Library Journal, starred review, "The conflict is rich and thorny, raising questions about art and morality, love and betrayal, sacrifice and opportunism and the chance moments that can define a life. The novel wrestles with the nature of art but moves with the speed of a page-turner." -- Los Angeles Times, "In her gripping first novel, Lyon sympathetically portrays Lu's struggle." -- Booklist, starred review, " A confident first novel... The moral dilemma Lyon sets up is explored with intelligence and grace ... Best of all is Rile's voice, snappish and self-aware and scared, taking on the world while being devoured by it, reaching out to touch the ghosts that float above the East River." -- Seattle Times
Copyright Date
2018
Target Audience
Trade
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2017-061606
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