Status
Available
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Collection
Publication
NYRB Classics (2023), 144 pages
Description
"The narrator of this creepy but feministically delicious novella, an early 21st-century novelist decides to write the biography of Helen Ralston, an all-but-forgotten 20th-century novelist she has long admired. In the late 1920s, Helen studied painting with W.E. Logan. Logan painted her as Circe, and Helen painted herself as an island titled My Death. When they parted for good, both turned to writing. Willy became famous; Helen did not. The narrator of My Death intends to do something about that. But first she must solve the mystery of Helen's relationship with Willy and why Helen titled her self-portrait My Death"--
User reviews
LibraryThing member DarthFisticuffs
I'm not really sure how to describe My Death, except to say that it's entirely unexpected from beginning to end, and so strangely interesting that I read it all in one go - not that it's very long, but I literally couldn't put it down.
Awards
World Fantasy Award (Nominee — Novella — 2005)
British Fantasy Award (Nominee — Novella — 2005)
International Horror Guild Award (Nominee — Long Fiction — 2004)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2004
Physical description
144 p.; 7.97 inches
ISBN
1681377721 / 9781681377728