Fetish Lives

Saints and dancers, writers and film stars, Elvis, Madame Tussaud and Mata Hari: just some of the lives explored in these unusual and arresting stories. With imaginative verve, Gail Jones weaves fact and speculation to reveal the 'fetish' aspects in the lives of people, both famous and ordinary. She explores the way they summon forms of yearning and obsession, and the ways in which, as subjects of fiction, they too live in desiring and imaginary relationships.