SHADOW-BOX -


Excellent Condition - NEW.
HardCover.
308 pages.

By Antonia Logue.


Antonia Logue's Shadow-Box blends historical fact with imaginative fiction in a compelling mix. Working in her favor is a cast of characters unlike any other. Mina Loy, the painter and Dadaist poet notorious for her beauty, her love affairs, and her flamboyant home-made hats; her husband, Arthur Cravan, a semi-professional boxer, art critic, and loup garou of polite society; and Cravan's friend Jack Johnson, Heavyweight Champion of the World on the eve of World War I, when being a black boxer meant facing death threats and abuse.

Theirs is an extraordinary story, featuring cameos from art-world luminaries like Marinetti and Duchamp, and chronicling a passion as grand on the page as it was in real life.


A few pages into each chapter, the narrative's sheer momentum takes over, and the reader is immersed in a world of boxing rings and surrealist salons, bullfights, and high modernist art.

Believable, beautifully researched, this is a first novel of astonishing confidence and range. Look for great things in Logue's future.


1999 Bloomsbury Press.