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Wraith
- GenresFiction
450 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
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About the author
Lee Tulloch
10 books12 followersLee Tulloch a Capricorn with Sagittarius rising and an Aries moon, if you believe in these things. (She's ambivalent.) Perhaps, however, her stars do explain a restless life lived on three continents. A graduate in English Literature from Melbourne University, she made an unexpected foray into federal politics as a researcher before she began writing about fashion and popular culture for Vogue Australia. Since then, she has written extensively on the subject for international publications such as Vogue, Elle, Jalouse, Harper's Bazaar and New York magazine. While still a child, she became the founding editor of Harper's Bazaar Australia but was dismissed after nine issues for being a little too creative.
In 1985 she moved from Sydney to New York, where she wrote her first novel, Fabulous Nobodies, which has been published in several countries and to much acclaim. With her photographer husband, Tony Amos, she chose a bohemian life, moving between Australia, New York and Paris for more than a decade with their young daughter, Lolita. In Paris, she began her second novel, Wraith, a gothic tale of a dead supermodel who comes back to haunt her personal assistant. She completed it in New York and it was published in 1999. In 2001 she published her third novel, Two Shanes, a comedy of errors about an Australian surfer on Manhattan.
On September 11 2001 she was evacuated from her Tribeca home and left her beloved Manhattan for the relative peace of a Sydney beach. Her fourth novel, The Cutting, a murder mystery set on the Australian coast, was published in 2003. She is a columnist on fashion, beauty and popular culture for The Australian Women's Weekly, the (sydney) magazine and the (melbourne) magazine. Her next work is a collection of her fashion essays, Perfect Pink Polish, and she is completing her fifth novel.
She would rather be a torch singer than a writer but she can't sing and that's how it goes.
Her favourite frock is a black Azzedine Alaia from 1984, which her daughter Lolita now wears.
In 1985 she moved from Sydney to New York, where she wrote her first novel, Fabulous Nobodies, which has been published in several countries and to much acclaim. With her photographer husband, Tony Amos, she chose a bohemian life, moving between Australia, New York and Paris for more than a decade with their young daughter, Lolita. In Paris, she began her second novel, Wraith, a gothic tale of a dead supermodel who comes back to haunt her personal assistant. She completed it in New York and it was published in 1999. In 2001 she published her third novel, Two Shanes, a comedy of errors about an Australian surfer on Manhattan.
On September 11 2001 she was evacuated from her Tribeca home and left her beloved Manhattan for the relative peace of a Sydney beach. Her fourth novel, The Cutting, a murder mystery set on the Australian coast, was published in 2003. She is a columnist on fashion, beauty and popular culture for The Australian Women's Weekly, the (sydney) magazine and the (melbourne) magazine. Her next work is a collection of her fashion essays, Perfect Pink Polish, and she is completing her fifth novel.
She would rather be a torch singer than a writer but she can't sing and that's how it goes.
Her favourite frock is a black Azzedine Alaia from 1984, which her daughter Lolita now wears.
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October 26, 2020
It was interesting. I don’t quite no where the ending has left me.
January 30, 2011
This was one of the most woefully bad attempts at story telling I have ever seen.
Despite multiple attempts I never made it past the first quarter.
I want those minutes of my life back please.
Eating my own toenails would have been less unenjoyable.
Despite multiple attempts I never made it past the first quarter.
I want those minutes of my life back please.
Eating my own toenails would have been less unenjoyable.
April 17, 2011
I loved this, from start to end...
March 25, 2013
I loved "Fabulous Nobodies" but I couldn't get through more than the first few chapters of this book.
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews