Self Portrait With Boy

Self Portrait With Boy

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Publisher's Synopsis

Rachel Lyon's first novel - soon to be made into a major motion picture starring Zoë Kravitz and Thomasin McKenzie

Lu Rile is a relentlessly focused young photographer struggling to make ends meet. Working three jobs, and worrying that the crumbling warehouse she lives in is being sold to developers, she is at a point of desperation. Until, by pure chance, Lu discovers she's captured a tragedy in the background of a self portrait; a boy falling to his death. The photograph turns out to be the best work of art she's ever made. It's an image that could change her life - if she lets it.

Set in early 90s Brooklyn on the brink of gentrification, Self-Portrait with Boy is a provocative commentary about the emotional
dues that must be paid on the road to success.

'Beautifully imagined and flawlessly executed' Joyce Carol Oates

'A sparkling debut' New York Times Book Review

Book information

ISBN: 9781398533356
Publisher: Scribner UK
Imprint: Scribner UK
Pub date:
Edition: Paperback original
DEWEY: 813.6
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 368
Weight: 278g
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 24mm