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Generation lossGeneration loss

Generation loss2007

a novel

Elizabeth Hand

3.8(12)on Hardcover

About this book

Patricia Highsmith meets Patti Smith when a down-and-out photographer and relic of the ‘70s NYC punk scene travels to an island off Maine in search of a reclusive and iconic artist. Cass Neary made her name in the ‘70s as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures of the musicians and the hangers-on, the infamous, the damned, and the dead, got her into art galleries and a book deal. Thirty years later she is adrift, on her way down, and almost out when an old acquaintance sends her on a mercy gig to interview a famously reclusive photographer who lives on an island in Maine. When she arrives Downeast, Cass stumbles across a decades-old mystery that is still claiming victims, and into one final shot at redemption.

Details

First published
2007
OL Work ID
OL1822412W

Subjects

Women photographersFictionFiction, thrillers, generalPhotographers, fictionNew york (state), fictionFiction, generalFiction, suspenseMaine, fiction

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