- Title:
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The Biographer
- Written by:
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Virginia Duigan
- Read by:
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Julie Nihill
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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10
- Duration:
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11 hours 51 minutes
- Published:
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April 01 2009
- Available Date:
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April 01 2009
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781742017471
- Genres:
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Fiction; Literary Fiction; Psychological Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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International bestseller
"Her vocabulary is adroitly chosen, her sentences beautifully balanced, her minor characters vividy sketched."
Australian Book Review
"A clear light on the ruthless habits of biography. Marvellous."
Drusilla Modjeska
He was there to uncover the past. She wanted it left a secret...
When Greer Gordon met Mischa Svoboda, a driven Czech-born refugee painter, he was unknown. His debut at the small art gallery where she worked created a sensation, and their explosive love affair caused Greer to abandon her husband and career and embark on a nomadic life with Mischa.
Twenty-five years later, Tony, a young art critic who is researching a biography of Mischa, arrives in the small Italian hilltop community where Greer and Mischa now live. Greer is consumed by anxiety, fearing the biographer may have unearthed the secret she had always intended to write out of her life story. A gripping cat-and-mouse game plays out, and with it the growing suspicion that Tony may be manipulating a dramatic outcome on which to build his career.
Beautifully narrated, Virginia Duigan's intimate and enthralling portrait of the relationship between an artist and his lover will have listeners examining how their own biographies might be written, for who amongst us truly has nothing to hide?
"Duigan's novel is a gripping study of the duel between the woman with a secret and the biographer who senses her fear. Beautifully paced, and even more sinister for its decorous setting, The Biographer offers the elements of a detective story and a debate on biography's methods and ethics in a sympathetically drawn human situation."
The Age
"Duigan is a wonderful writer... A psychologically and thoroughly delectable read."
The Sunday Telegraph