The Museum of Modern Love

Heather Rose

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Allen & Unwin
28 March 2018

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Stella Prize; Australian Fiction

Winner of the 2017 Stella Prize.

'This is a weirdly beautiful book.' David Walsh founder and curator, MONA

'Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one.' Stella Adler

'Art will wake you up. Art will break your heart. There will be glorious days. If you want eternity you must be fearless.' From The Museum of Modern Love

She watched as the final hours of The Artist is Present passed by, sitter after sitter in a gaze with the woman across the table. Jane felt she had witnessed a thing of inexplicable beauty among humans who had been drawn to this art and had found the reflection of a great mystery. What are we? How should we live?

If this was a dream, then he wanted to know when it would end. Maybe it would end if he went to see Lydia. But it was the one thing he was not allowed to do.

Arky Levin is a film composer in New York separated from his wife, who has asked him to keep one devastating promise. One day he finds his way to The Atrium at MOMA and sees Marina Abramovic in The Artist is Present. The performance continues for seventy-five days and, as it unfolds, so does Arky. As he watches and meets other people drawn to the exhibit, he slowly starts to understand what might be missing in his life and what he must do.

This dazzlingly original novel asks beguiling questions about the nature of art, life and love and finds a way to answer them.

By: Heather Rose
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm,
Weight: 264g
ISBN: 9781760633394
ISBN 10: 1760633399
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 28 March 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

The Museum of Modern Love is Heather Rose's 7th novel. Her novels span adult literary fiction, children's literature, fantasy/sci-fi and crime. Heather's previous novels are White Heart (1999), The Butterfly Man (2005) and The River Wife (2009). Heather also writes the acclaimed Tuesday McGillycuddy series for children (written under the pen-name of Angelica Banks with fellow-author Danielle Wood and published internationally). The series is Finding Serendipity (2013) A Week Without Tuesday (2015) and Blueberry Pancakes Forever (2016). Heather won the Davitt Award in 2006 and her work has been shortlisted for the Nita B Kibble Award and the Aurealis Awards, and longlisted for the IMPAC Awards. She is also a recipient of the international Eleanor Dark Fellowship.Heather was the inaugural Writer in Residence at The Museum of Old and New Art (MoNA) in Hobart 2012-13 where she did much of the research for The Museum of Modern Love. Heather is currently studying Fine Arts at UTAS.

Reviews for The Museum of Modern Love

'One of my stand-out Australian reads from 2016 was undoubtedly The Museum of Modern Love... It is a glorious novel, meditative and special in a way that defies easy articulation.' - Hannah Kent, The Guardian 'The Best Australian Books of 2016' - 21/12/16

Winner of Best Designed Literary Fiction Book - Australian Book Design Awards 2017 (Australia)
Winner of Christina Stead Prize for Fiction - NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2017 (Australia)
Winner of Designer's Choice Cover of the Year - Australian Book Design Awards 2017 (Australia)
Winner of The Stella Prize 2017 (Australia)