The Suicide of Claire Bishop by Banasky, Carmiel

The Suicide of Claire Bishop (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781938103087)

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Format: Hardcover
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The Suicide of Claire Bishop by Banasky, Carmiel

The Suicide of Claire Bishop

$24.95
The Suicide of Claire Bishop by Banasky, Carmiel

The Suicide of Claire Bishop

$24.95
Format: Hardcover
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Greenwich Village, 1959. Claire Bishop sits for a portrait--a gift from her husband--only to discover that what the artist has actually depicted is Claire's suicide. Haunted by the painting, Claire is forced to redefine herself within a failing marriage and a family history of madness. Shifting ahead to 2004, we meet West, a young man with schizophrenia obsessed with a painting he encounters in a gallery: a mysterious image of a woman's suicide. Convinced it was painted by his ex-girlfriend, West constructs an elaborate delusion involving time-travel, Hasidism, art-theft, and the terrifying power of representation. When the two characters finally meet, in the present, delusions are shattered and lives are forever changed.

The Suicide of Claire Bishop is a dazzling debut, evocative of Michael Cunningham's The Hours (and Virginia Woolf's classic Mrs. Dalloway), as well as Donna Tartt's bestseller The Goldfinch. With high stakes that reach across American history, Carmiel Banasky effortlessly juggles balls of madness, art theft, and Time itself, holding the reader in a thrall of language and personal consequences. Daring, sexy, emotional, The Suicide of Claire Bishop heralds Banasky as an important new talent.


Author: Carmiel Banasky
ISBN-10: 1938103084
ISBN-13: 9781938103087
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2015
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/06/2015
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2015
Booklist 09/01/2015 pg. 44
Foreword 08/27/2015
Library Journal 11/01/2015 pg. 82
By Carmiel Banasky
By Carmiel Banasky
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Carmiel Banasky is a writer and teacher from Portland, OR. Her work has appeared in Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, Slice, Guernica, PEN America, The Rumpus, and NPR, among other places. She earned her M.F.A. from Hunter College, where she taught Undergraduate Creative Writing. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from Bread Loaf, Ucross, Ragdale, Artist Trust, I-Park, and others foundations.

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