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The Artist's Widow

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Plot introduction
Reception
Publication history
External links
References

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Jun 1999 (US)
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The Artist's Widow is a novel written by British author Shena Mackay and first published in 1998 by Jonathan Cape. It is mentioned twice in the Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide (2003)

Plot introduction

Set in the contemporary art scene in London, it is centred on Lyris, the widow of John Crane, and begins at a viewing of her late husband's work; also present are her friend Clovis Ingram – a bookstore owner, a beautiful young television film-maker called Zoe, and Lyris' great nephew Nathan Pursey, an up-and-coming performance artist. The book concerns their complex interelationships in the wake of John Crane's death.

Reception

According to The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (2003) this 'satire on modern artistic values, is one of her most astringent novels'.^[1]
Paul Baumann's review in The New York Times opened with 'this is a vicious little book, and thus all the more enjoyable'.^[2]
Michael Arditti in The Independent is also positive, "Mackay’s gifts for biting description and black comedy are both much in evidence here" and her "prose is a joy to read".^[3]
Publishers Weekly concludes "As her characters experience the insecurities of youth, the crises of the middle years and the regrets of old age, Mackay explores the issues of artistic creativity, moral values and friendship. She writes in language as quick and lethal as a snake's tongue... The sadness at the narrative's core is beautifully controlled; the wit is buoyant."^[4]

Publication history

1998, UK, Jonathan Cape, {{ISBN|0-224-05134-2}}, Pub date 02 Jul 1998, Hardback
1999, US, Moyer Bell, {{ISBN|1-55921-229-2}}, Pub date May 1999, Hardback
1999, UK, Vintage, {{ISBN|0-09-928782-X}}, Pub date 01 Jul 1999, Paperback
1999, UK, Isis, {{ISBN|0-7531-6025-0}}, Pub date Jul 1999, Large print
2000, UK, Isis, {{ISBN|0-7531-0819-4}}, Pub date 29 Nov 2000, Audio book

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External links

[https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/mackay-widow.html Chapter 1 (online)]

References

1. ^http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-MackayShena.html Retrieved 2009-08-12.
2. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/07/18/reviews/990718.18baumant.html Flower Power: Shena Mackay's novel dissects the solipsistic commonplaces that inform our social rituals], The New York Times, July 18, 1999
3. ^Michael Arditti » The Artist’s Widow by Shena Mackay Retrieved 11-11-2012.
4. ^Fiction Review: The Artist's Widow by Shena MacKay from Publishers Weekly, 05/03/1999
5. ^www.fantasticfiction.co.uk Retrieved 2012-11-18.

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