Another pop gothic novel by the author of HERE {AWAY FROM IT ALL}, POLLY HOPE’S highly successful first book. US LOT, her second, is more lyrical in tone but equally serious. In it she turns from myth to magic art and illusionism; the contemporary art racket; heredity and environment; and a child bride’s search for identity amid the chaos of modern marriage. In another virtuoso performance Ms Hope reveals the jet-setters of HERE at work and play – home and abroad; artists, gays, musicians, eccentrics and more, revelling in their natural habitat. The subtler niceties of social manoeuvre – ambition, power and romantic love – replace HERE”S naked brutalism. But the theme remains: the triumph of fate over human intentions. The helplessness of Beowulf and Salome before the pleasures of past and future.‘fantastic and entertaining send-up of the market in contemporary painters.. RICHARD HUGHES‘plugged in, wired up.’ SCOTSMAN‘Surrealistic but oddly clear impressions of what it is like to be rich in the modern pop world, best brandy, wild migrations to the sun, and sex at all hours’. GUARDIAN
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