Description
A marvelous Lauren Groff and gentle mysterious and profound Marina Abramovi novel about a woman who has come undone
A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes renting an apartment from a painter Agnes who lives in another town with her husband One day Agnes arrives in the city and settles into the upstairs studio
In their meetings on the stairs in the studio at the corner caf the kitchen at dawn Agnes tells stories of her youth her family her marriage and ideas for her art which is always just about to be created As the months pass it becomes clear that Agnes might not have a place to return to The student is increasingly aware of Agness disintegration Her stories are frenetic her art scattered and unfinished white paint on a white canvas
What emerges is the menacing sense that every life is always at the edge of disaster no matter its seeming stability Alongside the research into human figures the student is learning from a cool distance about the narrow divide between happiness and resentment creativity and madness contentment and chaos
White on White is a sharp exploration of empathy and cruelty and the stunning discovery of what it means to be truly vulnerable and laid bare
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