About the book: 2003 / "A play for three voices and a pimp. Art and Lies is an elegant and profound improvisation by the most provocative British author of the last decade, Janet Winterson, a prose poem about art, eroticism and personality. In this fantasy, unfolding according to the laws of painting and music, Handel, Picasso and Sappho set off on a dead train in search of truth, light and love - but what will they find, escaping the horror of dullness and everyday life? Janet Winterson (b. 1959) - author well The novels “The Mystery of the Flesh” and “Passion”, known to Russian readers, translated into 17 languages, winner of several European and American literary awards. “A play for three voices and a pimp. Art and Lies” is published in Russian for the first time.