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Lust for Life (Plume)

By Irving Stone

Book information

Year
1984
ISBN
0452262496, 9780452262492
LCC
PS3537.T669 L8 1984b
Open Library ID
OL24950807M
Language
english
Format
LIT
Filesize
437 kB (446980 bytes)
Edition
50th anniversary
Pages
512\0
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

No artist has been more ruthlessly driven by his creative urge, nor more isolated by it from most ordinary sources of human happiness, than Vincent Van Gogh. A painter of genius, his life was an incessant struggle against poverty, discouragement, madness and despair. Lust for Life skilfully captures the exciting atmosphere of the Paris of the Post-Impressionists and reconstructs with great insight the development of Van Gogh's art. The painter is brought to life not only as an artist but as a personality and this account of his violent, vivid and tormented life is a novel of rare compassion and vitality.

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