The strays / Emily Bitto.

By: Bitto, Emily [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: [Sydney] : Read How You Want, [2015]Edition: [Large print edition]Description: xiii, 340 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781459690486Subject(s): Artists -- FictionGenre/Form: Large type books. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant garde painter Evan Trentham. He and his wife are trying to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia by inviting other like minded artists to live and work at their family home. Lily becomes infatuated with this wild, makeshift family and longs to truly be a part of it. As the years pass, Lily observes the way the lives of these artists come to reflect the same themes as their art: Faustian bargains and spectacular falls from grace. Yet it's not Evan, but his own daughters, who pay the price for his radicalism. The Strays is an engrossing story of ambition, sacrifice and compromised loyalties from an exciting new talent.
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Originally published: South Melbourne, Victoria : Affirm Press, 2014.

On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant garde painter Evan Trentham. He and his wife are trying to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia by inviting other like minded artists to live and work at their family home. Lily becomes infatuated with this wild, makeshift family and longs to truly be a part of it. As the years pass, Lily observes the way the lives of these artists come to reflect the same themes as their art: Faustian bargains and spectacular falls from grace. Yet it's not Evan, but his own daughters, who pay the price for his radicalism. The Strays is an engrossing story of ambition, sacrifice and compromised loyalties from an exciting new talent.

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