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Bitto, Emily.
Subjects
Girls -- Fiction.
Artists -- Fiction.
Children of artists -- Fiction.
Communal living -- Fiction.
Ambition -- Fiction.
Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Nineteen thirties -- Fiction.
Australia -- Fiction.
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Bitto, Emily.
Girls -- Fiction.
Artists -- Fiction.
Children of artists -- Fiction.
Communal living -- Fiction.
Ambition -- Fiction.
Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Nineteen thirties -- Fiction.
Australia -- Fiction.
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The
strays
: a
novel
/ Emily Bitto.
by
Bitto, Emily.
Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Canada, 2017, c2014.
Call #:
FICTION BIT
Subjects
Girls -- Fiction.
Artists -- Fiction.
Children of artists -- Fiction.
Communal living -- Fiction.
Ambition -- Fiction.
Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Nineteen thirties -- Fiction.
Australia -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780670070084 (hc.)
Description:
290 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends Eva and her sisters Beatrice and Heloise, daughters of the infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham. An only child from an unremarkable, working-class family, Lily has never experienced a household like the Trenthams'--a community of like-minded artists Evan and his wife have created, all living and working together to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia. And Lily has never met anyone like Eva, whose unabashed confidence and worldly knowledge immediately draw her in. Infatuated by the creative chaos of the Trenthams and the artists who orbit them, Lily aches to fully belong in their world, craving something beyond her own ordinary life. She becomes a fixture in their home, where she and Eva spend their days lounging in the garden, filching cigarettes and wine, and skirting the fringes of the adults' glamorous lives, who create scandalous art during the day and host lavish, debauched parties by night. But, as seductive as the artists' utopian vision appears, behind it lies both darkness and dysfunction. The further the girls are pulled in, the greater the consequences."--From publisher.
Awards:
Winner of Australia's 2015 Stella Prize.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Literary fiction.
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