My Life With Goya [SIGNED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Potok, Andrew

Published by Arbor House, New York, 1986

About this Item

Fine condition maroon linen boards with gold spine lettering contained in a very good condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Book(s) by Andrew Potok and Author Dedication. Some crinkling of the laminate at the jacket front. Signed, inscribed and dated (Oct. 1987) by the author, Andrew Potok, with black pen on the full title page. "Come celebrate the riotous, ribald, and marvelously moving story of young Adam Krinsky and the many delights of this grand novel. Never without pencils and sketchbook, Adam seems to have been born to draw. His exuberant Uncle Bolek sees this as an acceptable diversion - but one that will eventually pass. Then Adam will surely join his uncle in Bolek's own passion: his business, Prince Casimir Furs. Prince Casimir in New York replicates the glory and elegance of Bolek's Warsaw salon, which came to an end when the Nazis marched into Poland and Bolek fled with his ten-year-old nephew Adam to make a new life in America. He has succeeded beyond compare. Pronce Casimir draws the wealthy and titled from around the world, and Bolek, lusty, volatile, gifted, and debonair, takes vast pleasure in that success and in the pursuit of pleasure itself. Adam is blessed to have Bolek's love and gusto surround him, and to share his unconventional life. There's plenty of his uncle's sensuous hunger in Adam, who delights his classmates with salacious drawings, makes us roar with laughter at his first seduction, touches us with his anguished love for Maggie, his companion from babyhood. But there's no question he and Bolek are on a collision course. Adam must paint. He can't let himself be swallowed up by the spurious glamor of Bolek's world and the people who frequent it. His grand eruption, when that world becomes intolerable, ends with a great comic irony. Adam, the artist who despises the flim-flam of success, becomes a lion of the art world himself. Beneath the roaring energy and fire of this novel are complex and enduring themes that touch all our lives. But above all this is that grandest of reading experiences: the joy of discovering a truly brilliant and captivating book. My Life With Goya is magical." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Seller Inventory # 009069

Bibliographic Details

Title: My Life With Goya [SIGNED FIRST EDITION, ...

Publisher: Arbor House, New York

Publication Date: 1986

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Wachtenheim, Dorothy (jacket design); Zacharow, Christopher (jacket illustraton)

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition