#12Booksof2024 June
Some really solid reads in June, but this slow examination of artists and art was the most intriguing.
@Andrew65
#12Booksof2024 June
Some really solid reads in June, but this slow examination of artists and art was the most intriguing.
@Andrew65
Skillfully rendered, thorough, thoughtful exploration of artists, art, and the human connections that sustain us. These characters are multi-dimensional and genuinely human, laid bare in their vulnerabilities and strengths, their foibles, failings, and brief shining moments.
If you don't like non-linear storytelling, this may not be for you. It is more about character and ideas rather than plot... cont'd in comments
"Any advice he might give would be like a book written by someone late in life. Rich in moral experience and subtly expressed, to someone who came to it too young it would seem merely dull, although in the same book the same reader some twenty years later would be astonished to find the story of their whole life."