Villa E : a novel

Author

Jane Alison

Call Number

• FICTION ALIS (CEN, OSH)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2024]

Physical Description

176 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"Along the glittering coast of southern France, a white villa sits atop an earthen terrace--a site of artistic genius, now subject to bitter dispute. Eileen, a new architect known for her elegant chair designs, poured the concrete herself; she built it as a haven for her and her lover, and called it E-1027. When the hulking Le G, a founder of modernist architecture, laid eyes on the house in 1929, he could see his influence in the sleek lines--and he would not be outdone. Impassioned, he took a paintbrush to the clean, white walls... Thirty years later, Eileen has not returned to Villa E and Le G has never left--his summers spent aging in a cabin just feet away. Mining the psyches of two brilliant, complex artists and the extrordinary place that bound them, Jane Alison boldly reimagines a now-legendary act of vandalism into a lushly poetic and mesmerizing novel of power, predation, and obsession"--