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FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR

''Lush.'' Sunday Times
''Superb.'' Daily Mail
''Elegantly written.'' Sunday Telegraph

From award-winning and internationally bestselling author of Demon Copperhead and Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s America in the shadow of Senator McCarthy.

Born in America and raised in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salome. When he starts work in the household of Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo - where the Bolshevik leader, Lev Trotsky, is also being harboured as a political exile - he inadvertently casts his lot with art, communism and revolution. A compulsive diarist, he records and relates

The Lacuna

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 22 April 2010
      ISBN-13 9780571252671
      978-0571252671
      ISBN-10 0571252672
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
      TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
      THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR

      ''Lush.'' Sunday Times
      ''Superb.'' Daily Mail
      ''Elegantly written.'' Sunday Telegraph

      From award-winning and internationally bestselling author of Demon Copperhead and Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s America in the shadow of Senator McCarthy.

      Born in America and raised in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salome. When he starts work in the household of Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo - where the Bolshevik leader, Lev Trotsky, is also being harboured as a political exile - he inadvertently casts his lot with art, communism and revolution. A compulsive diarist, he records and relates

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