Sirens & muses : a novel
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Author
Published
New York : Ballantine Books, [2022].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780593496435, 0593496434
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Status
Morristown-Morris Township Library - Adult Fiction
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Published
New York : Ballantine Books, [2022].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780593496435, 0593496434
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
"The lives of four artists are forever altered by the desires, protests, and ambitions that lure and unsettle them in this magnetic novel. It's 2011: America is in a deep recession and Occupy Wall Street is escalating. But at the elite Wrynn College of Art, students paint and sculpt in a rarified bubble, dreaming only of disproving the notion that in art, everything has already been done. Louisa Arceneaux is a thoughtful, observant nineteen-year-old when she transfers to Wrynn as a scholarship student, but she soon finds herself adrift in an environment that prizes novelty over beauty. Complicating matters is Louisa's unexpected attraction to her charismatic roommate, Karina Piontek, the preternaturally gifted but mercurial daughter of wealthy art collectors. Gradually, Louisa and Karina are drawn into an intense sensual and artistic relationship, one that forces them to confront their deepest desires and fears. But Karina also can't shake her fascination with Preston Utley, a senior and anti-capitalist Internet provocateur publicly feuding with visiting professor and political painter Robert Belfer-a once-controversial figurehead seeking to regain cultural relevance, and perhaps a spotlight. When Preston concocts an explosive hoax, the fates of all four artists are upended as each is unexpectedly thrust into the cutthroat New York art world. Now, all must struggle to find new identities in art, in society, and amongst each other. In the process, they must find either their most authentic terms of life-of success, failure, and joy-or risk losing themselves altogether. With mesmerizing grace and earnest beauty, Sirens & Muses wrestles with questions of selfhood and ambition, art and protest, and new love. At the same time, with a canny, critical eye, the novel upends notions of class, money, art, youth, and a generation's fight to own their future"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Angress, A. (2022). Sirens & muses: a novel (First edition.). Ballantine Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Angress, Antonia. 2022. Sirens & Muses: A Novel. Ballantine Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Angress, Antonia. Sirens & Muses: A Novel Ballantine Books, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Angress, Antonia. Sirens & Muses: A Novel First edition., Ballantine Books, 2022.
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