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Author_Nell Freudenberger
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Product details
- ISBN 9781447242697
- Weight: 676g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jan 2013
- Publisher: Pan Macmillan
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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From the award-winning author of Lucky Girls comes an intricately woven novel about secrets, love, art, identity and the shining chaos of everyday American life. Yuan Zho, a celebrated Chinese performance artist and political dissident, has accepted a one year’s artist’s residency in Los Angeles. He is to be a Visiting Scholar at the St Anselm’s School for Girls, teaching advanced art, and hosted by one of the school’s most devoted families: the wealthy if dysfunctional Traverses. The Traverses are too preoccupied with their own problems to pay their foreign guest much attention, and the dissident is delighted to be left alone – his past links with the radical movements give him good reason to avoid careful scrutiny. The trouble starts when he and his American hosts begin to view one another with clearer eyes.
Nell Freudenberger has traveled extensively in Asia, where she volunteered with several humanitarian organizations and taught English in Bangkok and New Delhi. Shortlisted for the Orange New Writing Prize 2005 for her short story collection, Lucky Girls, she lives in New York City.
