The Suicide of Claire Bishop: A Novel

Written by:
Carmiel Banasky
Narrated by:
Will Damron , Carol Monda

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
4
Narrator
4
Release Date
September 2015
Duration
12 hours 0 minutes
Summary
Greenwich Village, 1959. Claire Bishop sits for a portrait—a gift from her husband—only to discover that what the artist has actually depicted is Claire’s suicide. Haunted by the painting, Claire is forced to redefine herself within a failing marriage and a family history of madness. Shifting ahead to 2004, we meet West, a young schizophrenic obsessed with a painting he encounters in a gallery: a mysterious image of a woman’s suicide. Convinced it was painted by his ex-girlfriend, West constructs an elaborate delusion involving time-travel, Hasidism, art theft, and the terrifying power of representation. When the two characters finally meet, delusions are shattered and lives are forever changed.

The Suicide of Claire Bishop is a dazzling debut, evocative of Michael Cunningham’s The Hours and Virginia Woolf’s classic Mrs. Dalloway, as well as Donna Tartt’s bestseller The Goldfinch. With high stakes that reach across American history, Carmiel Banasky effortlessly juggles balls of madness, art theft, and time itself, holding the listener in a thrall of language and personal consequences. Daring, sexy, and emotional, The Suicide of Claire Bishop heralds Banasky as an important new talent.
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Carol Monda

Can't help it; I love this novel and its narration!

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Katie Slaven

I really wanted to love this one. It was excellent at first, and the writing was well done throughout, but the characters became less and less likable as the story went on. I enjoyed the switching of the narration at first but by the end it was done in a way that stifled the character development and made things hard to follow. Also, to me the ending was pretty unsatisfying... And frankly uneventful.

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