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Life Drawing

Name: Life Drawing
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780702270987
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By Emily Lighezzolo

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An award-winning and provocative novel about women's bodies, sex, autonomy— and the power of the image. Hypothetically, would you want to live forever but invisible, or a short life seen? Hypothetically, would you give up wine forever or sex for ten years? Hypothetically, would you show... Read More

Format: Paperback / softback

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Life Drawing

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Life Drawing

Description

An award-winning and provocative novel about women's bodies, sex, autonomy— and the power of the image.

Hypothetically, would you want to live forever but invisible, or a short life seen? Hypothetically, would you give up wine forever or sex for ten years? Hypothetically, would you show a friend someone else's nude?

Maisie and Charlie meet at a life drawing class as undergraduates—she's the model, he's an artist. Their immediate connection carries them across two decades as they navigate the slippery dynamics of friendship, estrangement, and family.

Maisie's story is every woman's, and Emily Lighezzolo's bold debut interrogates the collision of art and gaze, desire and consent, muse and meaning. This is a love story. At its core—a woman's body—seen, touched, loved, hated, commodified, and reclaimed. Life Drawing is an award-winning and unflinching novel for our times.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780702270987

Publisher: University of Queensland Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 March 2026

Country: Australia

Imprint: University of Queensland Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 1.0mm

Width: 1.0mm

Height: 1.0mm

Weight: 1g

Pages: 304

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About the Author

Emily Lighezzolo has worked in Australian publishing for nearly a decade. Life Drawing won the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer at the Queensland Literary Awards and is her first book. She lives in Meanjin/Brisbane.