Corpus

In this illuminating collection, Susan Irvine takes the reader into the creative mind. From Concept I, in which an artist presents her son as a work of art for the Turner Prize, to a Hoxton novelist who outsources the production of his prose to a fabulator, to a stylist whose attempt to subvert fashion s shallowness backfires, Irvine s characters find themselves caught between real life and the desire to create.Moving through the worlds of art, academia, fashion and fiction, these stories challenge received ideas, cast a wry look at those who take themselves too seriously and explore the betrayals art can entail.