NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA happily misanthropic Middle East divorcee finds refuge in books in a "beautiful and absorbing" novel of latelife crisis (The New York Times)
Stones becomes an ode to Young's home places and his dear departed
In this fantastically sharp novel
a 300-meter tower that will dominate the city’s skyline
and the rain has been relentlessand a flood of trouble is about to be unleashed
Van Gogh Classics_Gift_Guide NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA happilyToday, the works of Vincent van Gogh (18531890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear, and many paintings and drawings beyond, we recognize an artist uniquely dexterous in the portrayal of mood and place through paint, pencil, charcoal, or chalk. Yet as he was deploying the lurid colors, emphatic brushwork, and contoured forms that would subsequently make his name,