Night Blue

This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

*Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2022: UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing*

Potent, haunting and lyrical, Night Blue is a debut novel like no other, a narrative largely told in the voice of the painting Blue Poles. It is a truly original and absorbing approach to revisiting Jackson Pollock and his wife Lee Krasner as artists and people, as well as a realigning our ideas around the cultural legacy of Whitlam's purchase of Blue Poles in 1973.

It is also the story of Alyssa, and a contemporary relationship, in which Angela O'Keeffe immerses us in the essential power of art to change our personal lives and, by turns, a nation.

Moving between New York and Australia with fluid ease, Night Blue is intimate and tender, yet surprisingly dramatic. It is a glorious exploration of how art must never be undervalued.

'Intimate, sublime, this work shines.' - Favel Parrett, author of Past the Shallows and There Was Still Love

'Intelligent and poignant, Night Blue traverses the boundaries between language and art in a delicious tour de force. I found it impossible to put down.'- Mette Jakobsen, author of What the Light Hides and The Vanishing Act

'Miraculous ... O'Keeffe gets under the skin of a painting we all thought we knew, giving it agency and voice, releasing a spirit that is by turns dreamlike, tender and ruthlessly true.'- Michael Fitzgerald, author of The Pacific Room and Piet

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781925760675
Published: May 2021

Number of pages: 144
Width: 153 mm
Height: 234 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Transit Lounge Publishing