New Directions Classics: The Art Lover: A Novel (Paperback)

from whitewavedarling

I realize this book is meant to be experimental, but I think it needed quite a bit more editing to really work. The end of the work is more closely knit and clear, but for the most part, I found this work to be fairly self-indulgent and repetitive, and more along the lines of a fragmented memoir ...

from KrisR

This book is true. True to the fragmentation and ragged edges of life. True to all the ways that we open ourselves up to grief when we love another person. True to the ways that we can use art as a shield, a barrier to hold loss and pain at arm's length -- as well as to the ways that art can help...

from KrisR

This book is true. True to the fragmentation and ragged edges of life. True to all the ways that we open ourselves up to grief when we love another person. True to the ways that we can use art as a shield, a barrier to hold loss and pain at arm's length -- as well as to the ways that art can help...