Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd

Literary Short Stories

Author: Jeanette Winterson

There is no such thing as autobiography, there is only art and lies’. Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters, Handel, Picasso and Sappho, separately flee the city and find themselves on the same train, drawn to one another through the curious agency of a book. Stories within stories take us through the unlikely love-affairs of one Doll Sneerpie….Read More

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