![]() Each account is different, however, and the mysteries multiply. ![]() In this mesmerising tour de force, Burden’s story emerges after her death through a variety of sources, including her (not entirely reliable) journals and the testimonies of her children, lover and a dear friend. Then her last collaborator meets a bizarre end. When Professor Hess stumbles across an unusual letter to the editor in an art journal, he is surprised to have known so little about the brilliant and. Their success seems to prove her point, but there’s a sting in the tail – when she unmasks herself, not everyone believes her. The artist Harriet Burden, furious at the lack of attention paid her by the New York art world, conducts an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts in a series of exhibitions. ![]() ‘Playful, ebullient, brainy’ Financial Times ‘A truly wonderful intellectual work that makes you think and laugh’ Daily Mail ![]() WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION ![]()
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