Art Lover: A Novel - Hardcover

Maso, Carole

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0865474273 ISBN 13: 9780865474277

Publisher: North Point Pr, 1990

Synopsis

Caroline, the daughter of a famous art historian, tries to come to terms with her memories of him and of her mother, who committed suicide twenty-five years before

About this title

About the Author:

Carole Maso is author of the novels AVA, The American Woman in the Chinese Hat, Ghost Dance, The Art Lover, and Defiance. She has also written several books of nonfiction. Maso is a professor of Literary Arts at Brown University.

From Publishers Weekly:

Caroline, a novelist and poet, returns from an isolated artists colony to Manhattan, where her widowed, art-historian father has recently died. As one strand of the narrative follows her rediscovery of the city--and of a friend diagnosed with AIDS--another follows the characters she creates in her prose; interspersed throughout are reproductions of pictures and newspaper clippings that inspire her. This narrative cord ruptures with the introduction of "Carole," the persona of Maso, and descriptions of herself at work on the novel while her own beloved friend is dying, Carole/the writer's art incapable of saving him. Despite its trendy structure and themes, this work is steered by anything but a narcissistic postmodernism. Maso ( Ghost Dance ) is not content to muse on the relationship between life and art; she brings to life a "bombardment of images and sounds," fashioning a pattern of astonishing complexity and beauty. The tough-mindedness, originality and wit of her perceptions are intoxicating.
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About this edition

• Publisher: North Point Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0865474273
• ISBN 13: 9780865474277
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 249