The Museum Of Modern Love

Author: Heather Rose

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  • : 9781760633394
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  • : February 2018
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Description

'One of my stand-out Australian reads from 2016 . . . A glorious novel, meditative and special' Hannah Kent, author of BURIAL RITES Arky Levin, a film composer in New York, has promised his wife that he will not visit her in hospital, where she is suffering in the final stages of a terminal illness. She wants to spare him a burden that would curtail his creativity, but the promise is tearing him apart. One day he finds his way to MOMA and sees Mariana Abramovic in The Artist is Present. The performance continues for seventy-five days and, as it unfolds, so does Arky. As he watches and meets other people drawn to the exhibit, he slowly starts to understand what might be missing in his life and what he must do.

Awards

Winner of Best Designed Literary Fiction Book - Australian Book Design Awards 2017 (Australia) and The Stella Prize 2017 (Australia) and Christina Stead Prize for Fiction - NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2017 (Australia) and Designer's Choice Cover of the Year - Australian Book Design Awards 2017 (Australia). Short-listed for Australian Literature Society Gold Medal 2017 (Australia) and Margaret Scott Prize - Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prizes 2017 (Australia) and Best Fiction - Queensland Premier's Literary Awards 2017 (Australia).

Author description

The Museum of Modern Love is Heather Rose's 7th novel. Her novels span adult literary fiction, children's literature, fantasy/sci-fi and crime. Heather's previous novels are White Heart (1999), The Butterfly Man (2005) and The River Wife (2009). Heather also writes the acclaimed Tuesday McGillycuddy series for children (written under the pen-name of Angelica Banks with fellow-author Danielle Wood and published internationally). The series is Finding Serendipity (2013) A Week Without Tuesday (2015) and Blueberry Pancakes Forever (2016). Heather won the Davitt Award in 2006 and her work has been shortlisted for the Nita B Kibble Award and the Aurealis Awards, and longlisted for the IMPAC Awards. She is also a recipient of the international Eleanor Dark Fellowship.Heather was the inaugural Writer in Residence at The Museum of Old and New Art (MoNA) in Hobart 2012-13 where she did much of the research for The Museum of Modern Love. Heather is currently studying Fine Arts at UTAS.