Self-Portrait with Boy (Hardcover)

from nancyadair

Art is rooted in experience, and artists plumb their lives for their art. I think of F. Scott Fitzgerald and how he appropriated Zelda's letters and diaries and story for his work, or Thomas Wolfe whose first novel Look Homeward, Angel caused a ruckus in his hometown that was so thinly veiled in ...

from Goodlorde

Self-Portrait with Boy is narrated by Lu Rile, an artist photographer in her mid-twenties struggling to make ends meet while living in pre-gentrified Brooklyn during the early '90s. The primary pulse of the novel centers around a self-portrait photograph Lu serendipitously took of a boy, Max Schu...

from cathgilmore

(2.5) A startlingly unique and uncomfortable premise is at the heart of Self-Portrait with Boy: an artist is in the midst of taking a series of self-portraits against a window of her apartment when she hears a commotion and learns that the 9-year-old son of her upstairs neighbors, has fallen to h...

from kayanelson

I loved the premise of this book but in the end it was just okay for me. I didn't really like Lu as a character and maybe I wasn't supposed to. After all she did do an underhanded thing and she deserved to be spit on. But the depth of the story line was lacking. Her dad's eyesight. So what. No mo...

from hubblegal

Oh how Lu Rile longs to make her mark in the photography world. She has struggled so hard and her art means everything to her. During a series of self-portraits, she inadvertently captures the fatal fall of a young boy past her window. The resulting photograph is her masterpiece, the work that he...