Van Gogh's Bad Cafe: A Love Story - Softcover

Tuten, Frederic

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0688161030 ISBN 13: 9780688161033

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1998

Synopsis

A novel blending fantasy and romance relates the last days of Vincent Van Gogh and his obsessive love affair with an opium-addicted nineteen-year-old photographer

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Review:

This tender novel is author Frederic Tuten's imagining of Vincent van Gogh's last months, encompassing in its beautiful passages a possible motive for the artist's legendary suicide. A true ode to van Gogh, to love, and to art, this book is essential reading for anyone who has ever been fascinated by the life and work of van Gogh. Relying as much upon historical and biographical information about the artist as it does upon the author's own imagination, this is an exploration of the mysterious territory where art and life intersect, impact, and collide with one another. As vibrant and passionate as the art of its subject, reading this book is an experience akin to viewing one of van Gogh's paintings.

From the Publisher:

As incandescent and intense as the art of its subject, Van Gogh's Bad Cafe is a fantastical romance set in two different eras. It is a meditation on love and longing; on van Gogh's psyche and his work; on addiction (to passion, drugs, art); on the spirit of the nineteenth versus the twentieth century.

Reading this book is, indeed, like viewing a van Gogh: You savor each brush stroke, linger over its mesmerizing imagery, and revel in its sensual beauty. As soon as you finish, you want to start again.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0688161030
• ISBN 13: 9780688161033
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 163