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category: Fiction
published: Sep 2020
ISBN:9781771088336
publisher: Nimbus Publishing

Lay Figures

by Mark Blagrave

tagged: historical, literary, world war ii
Description

Elizabeth MacKinnon moves to Saint John New Brunswick in 1939 to find inspiration for her poetry in the bohemian life of the city's central peninsula. Swept up in the vibrant society of the city's poets, painters, potters, dancers, and playwrights, she finds herself joining their struggles to make sense of making art in a time of economic depression.

Inhabiting the lives of the artists who find themselves in the port city taking refuge from the Depression, Lay Figures explores relationships between art and lived experience, artist and subject, artist and audience, and between margins and centre, and traces the development of a young female writer against the backdrop of the Depression and early war years in Saint John. In a story that couples bitter despair with exuberant triumphs, Elizabeth and her fellow artists make life-changing discoveries about politics and social responsibility, desire and betrayal.

About the Author
Mark Blagrave was born and raised in Ontario, and has lived in New Brunswick most of his life. His first novel, Silver Salts, was shortlisted for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Novel and his novel Lay Figures was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. He now lives in St. Andrews, New Brunswick.

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