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Vivienne

Vivienne

Russo, Emmalea

Paperback

Literary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.99

ISBN10: 1648211488
ISBN13: 9781648211485
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: Jun 24 2025
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
One of the year's most impressive debuts.--David Gutowski, LargeheartedBoy.com

A skin-crawling drama about three generations of women and their relationships to one another. . . a satirical comedy that is at its core a book of poetry, or literary art.--Artnet

Did Vivienne Volker Kill Wilma Lang?

This question has dogged Vivienne ever since Wilma jumped from a window to her death shortly after Volker stole her lover, the visionary artist Hans Bellmer, in the 1970s. Once a famous artist and fashion icon, Volker is now in her eighties and spends her days in religious contemplation in rural Pennsylvania alongside her daughter Velour Bellmer, her granddaughter Vesta Furio, her much younger boyfriend--a garbageman named Lou--and Franz, the family dog. Their quiet lives are disrupted when Vivienne's work is selected for inclusion in a high-profile retrospective called Forgotten Women Surrealists at the prestigious NAT Museum. However, when rumors of her past misdeeds begin to circulate and she is dropped from the show, a gallery curator enters the picture hoping to capitalize on the buzz generated by the controversy, sending the family's tensions, hopes, and dreams to a dizzying peak.

Set over the course of a fateful week, Vivienne deftly weaves surreal prose with a Greek chorus of internet comments and text messages, to ask the questions: what is the cost of vision, what is the price of art? What connects creation and procreation, a life and an afterlife?

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