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The Biographer
Greer Gordon lives in Italy with Mischa Svoboda, a driven Czech-born painter with a booming international reputation. Their explosive love affair caused Greer to abandon her husband and job, to sever all contact with home, and to embark upon a nomadic life with Mischa. Tony, a young American art critic, has been researching a biography of Mischa and has come to the small I...more
Paperback, 336 pages
Published
January 1st 2010
by Random House Australia
(first published April 1st 2008)
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Took a while to get going, but turned out to be a really interesting (if, in the end, fairly predictable) read. It was clear from the beginning that Greer was one nervous/neurotic self-absorbed woman, and the biographer of her (equally self-absorbed but far more famous) husband was at the crux of why (and Greer and Antony (biographer) both knew it)...this, after all, is what the entire novel revolves around...but now that I'm finished the novel and know the secret they both knew, I must say I d...more
Greer Gordon leaves her husband to be with Czech painter Mischa Svoboda. Mischa is an annoying, self-absorbed character so I never get why, and personally never see the connection except that they are both self-absorbed and self-important. A biographer wants to write about Mischa and the shit hits the fan with Greer who seems to have the personality of a washcloth. This all takes place in Australia where they live. Thank god for that. It added a little something.
It was impossible to make any kind of connection with the main character. This lady is such an unrealistic character, that I could hardly understand her. I tried for three chapters and then gave up.
mmmm....I was disappointed. The big "secret" was obvious from the beginning, and the characters were interesting, but didn't develop. Some nice writing, but lacked a plot skeleton to hold it up.
Good story although I knew how it would end. Characters were interesting and the story flowed well.
Written with humour and a frison of tension as wife of famous artist faces a biography of her husband.
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Attended 8 schools in the UK, Malaya and Australia.
BA (hons) Melbourne University
Lived and worked in England, Australia and USA
Journalism
UK: Journalist on World’s Press News, Campaign; freelanced for The Observer, The Times.
Australia: freelance feature writer on for The National Times, The Bulletin, The Age, The Australian, The Bulletin, Cinema...more
More about Virginia Duigan...
BA (hons) Melbourne University
Lived and worked in England, Australia and USA
Journalism
UK: Journalist on World’s Press News, Campaign; freelanced for The Observer, The Times.
Australia: freelance feature writer on for The National Times, The Bulletin, The Age, The Australian, The Bulletin, Cinema...more
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