Synopsis
Antonia Logue’s riveting first novel weaves together the lives of three extraordinary characters from the early half of the twentieth century: Jack Johnson, who became the first black Heavyweight Champion of the World; Arthur Cravan, semi-professional boxer, art critic, and nephew of Oscar Wilde; and the beautiful Modernist poet Mina Loy, Cravan’s wife and the third figure in this charismatic triangle. What unfolds is a compulsively readable tale of ambition and betrayal, hatred and injustice, vanity and triumph, ranging across the United States and Europe – from the salons of Paris and a bull-fight arena in Spain to elegant Manhattan and Sing-Sing Prison – during the heady period between the two World Wars. Daring, forceful, passionate, and sharply observed, Shadow-Box is a brilliant melding of history and imagination.
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About the Author
Antonia Logue was born in Park, County Derry in 1972, and brought up in Brussels. She received her degree in English literature at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1995. From 1990 she worked as a freelance journalist, for newspapers including The Irish Times, The Guardian, and The Times. Shadow-Box is her first novel, and the winner of the Irish Times Literature Prize for Fiction. She was recently named by the Observer one of the twenty-one writers for the twenty-first century.
Antonia Logue currently lives in Dublin, where she writes full-time.
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