*Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2022: UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing *Potent, haunting and lyrical, Night Blue is a debut novel like no other, a narrative largely told in the voice of the painting Blue Poles. It is a truly original and absorbing approach to revisiting Jackson Pollock and his wife Lee Krasner as artists and people, as well as a realigning our ideas around the cultural legacy of Whitlam's purchase of Blue Poles in 1973.
It is also the story of Alyssa, and a contemporary relationship, in which Angela O'Keeffe immerses us in the essential power of art to change our personal lives and, by turns, a nation.
Moving between New York and Australia with fluid ease, Night Blue is intimate and tender, yet surprisingly dramatic. It is a glorious exploration of how art must never be undervalued.
'Intimate, sublime, this work shines.' - Favel Parrett, author of Past the Shallows and There Was Still Love
'Intelligent and poignant, Night Blue traverses the boundaries between language and art in a delicious tour de force. I found it impossible to put down.' - Mette Jakobsen, author of What the Light Hides and The Vanishing Act
'Miraculous ... O'Keeffe gets under the skin of a painting we all thought we knew, giving it agency and voice, releasing a spirit that is by turns dreamlike, tender and ruthlessly true.' - Michael Fitzgerald, author of The Pacific Room and Pieta
By:
Angela O'Keeffe Imprint: transit lounge Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 153mm,
ISBN:9781925760675 ISBN 10: 1925760677 Pages: 144 Publication Date:01 May 2021 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
