Book overview
- Book name: Exhibition
- Author: Alex Hyde
- Publish date and publisher: July 2026, Granta Books
Synopsis
Amid the heady rebellion of London’s Young British Artists, Rabble Stone, a photographer, meets the artist, a painter, after renting a room in her Brixton home.
Soon Rabble is in thrall to this new world: to the run-down glamour of the Victorian house; to the exhilarating and debauched gallery openings, and to those in the artist’s orbit, beautiful and lost.
Above all, she is drawn to her new friend’s work; raw, unfiltered self-portraits of startling intimacy, which Rabble captures in her uncompromising photographs. But as Rabble’s longing tips into obsession, her pursuit of the artist – her fame, her wealth, her life – threatens to consume her.
This novel connects Alex’s research in feminist politics and gender and sexuality studies, and subject areas central to the arts and humanities.
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