The sitter
O'Keeffe, Angela2023
Book
Paris, 2020. A writer is confined to her hotel room during the early days of the pandemic, struggling to finish a novel about Hortense Cezanne, wife and sometime muse of the famous painter. Dead for more than a century, Hortense has been reawakened by this creative endeavour, and now shadows the writer through the locked-down city. But Hortense, always the subject of the gaze of others, is increasingly intrigued by the woman before her. Who is she and what event hides in her past? Heartbreaking and perfectly formed, The Sitter explores the tension between artist and subject, and between the stories told about us and the stories we choose to tell.
Main title:
The sitter / Angela O'Keeffe.
Author:
O'Keeffe, Angela, author
Work:
Imprint:
St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2023.©2023
Collation:
169 pages ; 20 cm
Awards:
Winner of the UQP Quentin Bryce Award 2023
ISBN:
9780702266348 (paperback)
Dewey class:
A823.4
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
452772