Winner of the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction
“I read
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark
with my heart in my mouth. Not only a dissection of genius and the havoc it can wreak, but also a thunderously good story.”
—Emma Donoghue,
New York Times
bestselling author of
Room
“This novel is perceptive, subtle, funny and lingers in unexpected ways. The analysis of a woman who puts her art above all else is equal parts inspiration and warning story. Anna North makes prose look easy.”
—Lena Dunham
Who is Sophie Stark? A brilliant filmmaker, a lover, a wife, a friend, a traitor. A troubled misfit who becomes a star, at great cost to the people who love her and, ultimately, to herself. Gripping and provocative,
is a story of the power of art to transform lives and to destroy them, and of an artist’s drive to create something greater than herself, even if it means sacrificing everything—and everyone—she loves.