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Shadow-Box
1999
First Published
3.49
Average Rating
311
Number of Pages
A sweeping story of love, art, and boxing, this novel centers around the mysterious Arthur Cravan—semiprofessional boxer, art critic, con man, nephew of Oscar Wilde. Cravan befriended Jack Johnson, the exiled black American boxer, in Paris; in 1916 they staged a fight to pay for Cravan's passage out of war-torn Europe. In New York, Cravan fell in love with the poet Mina Loy; they fled to Mexico and were married. Soon after, Cravan was lost at sea in a hurricane and presumed dead. In letters between Jack and Mina thirty years after Cravan's disappearance, Shadow-Box sketches this expansive tale in the era of tremendous social, artistic, and political upheaval before and during World War I.
Avg Rating
3.49
Number of Ratings
41
5 STARS
20%
4 STARS
29%
3 STARS
34%
2 STARS
15%
1 STARS
2%
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Author

Antonia Logue
Antonia Logue
Author · 2 books

Antonia Logue is an Irish novelist from Park, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. She grew up in Brussels, and was educated at Trinity College Dublin and Cambridge University. Her first novel, Shadow-Box, won The Irish Times Literature Award for an Irish novel and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She has been a faculty member in Creative Writing at Oxford University, Columbia College, and the University of Chicago, and held fellowships at St John's College Cambridge, Wolfson College Cambridge, and CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) at Cambridge University. She was named one of The Observer's 21 writers for the 21st century. She is a Visiting Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford. Logue lives in Richmond, South West London with her husband and two children. (from Wikipedia)

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