Barbara by Murphy, Joni
Barbara by Murphy, Joni

Barbara

Like Nolan's Oppenheimer by way of Lucia Berlin, a radiant novel tracking the lifecycle of a silver...
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Author: Joni Murphy
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Language: English
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Barbara by Murphy, Joni

Barbara

$63.43
Barbara by Murphy, Joni

Barbara

$63.43
Author: Joni Murphy
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Like Nolan's Oppenheimer by way of Lucia Berlin, a radiant novel tracking the lifecycle of a silver screen starlet rising against the backdrop of the Atomic Age.

Barbara is born shortly before World War II and lives through the conflict as a desert child trailing her father, an engineer in the famed and infamous Manhattan Project. When Barbara is thirteen, her beautiful, sensitive mother commits suicide. From that point on, these twin poles--the historic and the personal, the political and the violently intimate--vie for control of Barbara's consciousness.

As Barbara grows up and becomes a successful actress, traveling the world between film sets and love affairs, she takes on and sheds various roles--vampire's victim and frontier prostitute; a saint and a bored housewife. She marries and divorces and marries again, the second time to a visionary director who proves to be the love of her life. Though they are not faithful to each other, their relationship provides the most enduring anchor in a remarkable life turbulent with fiction.

Joni Murphy's Barbara is a deep character study of a woman losing hold and recapturing her identity through the art and technology of moviemaking. Through an intimate first-person perspective, the novel follows Barbara as she navigates decades and genres--from austere 1950s family dramas to countercultural 1970s gothics--glimpsing herself in the reflective and deadly shards of the long 20th Century.

Author: Joni Murphy
Publisher: Astra House
Published: 03/25/2025
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781662602870

About the Author
Joni Murphy is a writer from New Mexico who lives in New York. Her debut novel, Double Teenage, was published in 2016. It was named one of the Globe and Mail's 100 Best Books of 2016. Her second novel, Talking Animals, was published in 2020 from FSG Originals.
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