Utopia
- Bib ID:
- 8666762
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Sopinka, Heidi
- Related Online Resources:
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2022
- 1 online resource (234 p.)
- ISBN:
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- 1922586706
- 9781922586704
- Summary:
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It's okay for men to make bad art. There's no price on their head for doing it ... Nothing for men is pre-determined, except their chance at great success. Los Angeles, 1978. When Romy, a gifted young artist in the male-dominated art scene of 1970s California, dies in suspicious circumstances, it is not long before her art-star husband Billy finds a replacement. Paz, fresh out of art school in New York, returns to California to take her place. But she is haunted by Romy, who is everywhere: in the photos and notebooks and art strewn around the house, and in the eyes of the baby she left behind. As Paz attempts to claim her creative life, strange things begin to happen. Photographs move, noises reverberate through the house, people start to question what really happened the night Romy died, and then a postcard in her handwriting arrives. As Paz becomes increasingly obsessed with the woman she has replaced, a disturbing picture begins to emerge, driving her deep into the desert -- the site of Romy's final artwork -- to uncover the truth. At once an exquisite exploration of creativity and an atmospheric page-turner, Utopia is a book that takes hold of you and will leave you altered.
- Notes:
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- Description based upon print version of record.
- General.
- Subject:
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- Artists -- California -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Family life -- Fiction
- Ghost stories
- Remarriage -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
- California
- Contemporary lifestyle fiction
- Fiction - Literary
- Fiction / City Life
- Fiction / Family Life / General
- Fiction / Feminist
- Fiction: general & literary
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- Narrative theme: Interior life
- Narrative theme: Love & relationships
- Narrative theme: Social issues
- Romance
- California -- Fiction
- Other authors/contributors:
- Scribe
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2022
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