From the award-winning author of Minor Characters comes a haunting
novel about the persistence of love and the sustaining and
destabilizing power of memories In the vibrant downtown Manhattan art
world of the 1960s, where men and women collide in “lucky and
unlucky convergences,” a series of love affairs has left Joanna
Gold, a young photographer, feeling numbed. Then, at yet another
party, a painter named Tom Murphy walks up to her. “Why do you hang
back?” he asks. Rather than another brief collision, their
relationship is the profound and ecstatic love each had longed to
find. But it’s undermined by Tom’s harrowing past—his fatherless
childhood, his wartime experiences, and most of all, the loss of the
two children he left behind in Florida, along with the powerful red,
white, and black paintings he will never set eyes on again. Tom,
both tender and volatile, draws Joanna into the unwinnable struggle
against the forces that drive him toward death. Once again, Joyce
Johnson brings to life a mythic bohemian world where art is everything
and life is as full of intensity and risk as the bold sweep of a
painter’s brush across a canvas. A New York Times Notable Book
Excerpted in the New Yorker and Harper’s Magazine
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ISBN
9781480481213
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
Open Road Media
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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