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A vibrantly illustrated chain of entanglements (romantic and otherwise) between some of our best-loved writers and artists of the twentieth century--fascinating, scandalous, and surprising. Poet Robert Lowell died of a heart attack, clutching a portrait of his lover, Caroline Blackwood, painted by her ex-husband, Lucian Freud. Lowell was on his way to see his own ex-wife, Elizabeth Hardwick, who was a longtime friend of Mary McCarthy. McCarthy left the father of her child to marry Edmund Wilson, who had encouraged her writing, and had also brought critical attention to the fiction of Anas Nin . . . whom he later bedded. And so it goes, the long chain of love, affections, and artistic influences among writers, musicians, and artists that weaves its way through the The Art of the Affair--from Frida Kahlo to Colette to Hemingway to Dali; from Coco Chanel to Stravinsky to Miles Davis to Orson Welles.
About the Author
Catherine Lacey is the author of three novels-- Nobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers, and Pew. She has published fiction in The New Yorker, Harper's, Playboy, and in her collection Certain American States. The recipient of a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim fellowship, she was also named one of Granta Magazine's Best of Young American Novelists in 2017. Born in Mississippi, she is now based in Chicago.
