Description
| Product ID: | 9781035036554 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Title: | So Much Blue |
| Authors: | Author: Percival Everett |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Paintings and painting, Painting & paintings, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Massachusetts, El Salvador, c 1990 to c 2000, c 2010 to c 2020 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Percival Everett's deadpan humor and insightful commentary about the artistic life culminate in a gorgeous novel. <p><b>‘Absorbing in its simplicity about bourgeois banality and the quest for expression’ <i>New York Times</i></b><br><br><b><i>So Much Blue</i> is a gorgeous novel about art, memory and self-deception from the author of <i>Erasure</i>, now an Oscar-nominated film.</b><br><br>Kevin Pace is working on a painting that he won't allow anyone to see: not his children; not his best friend, Richard; not even his wife, Linda. The painting is a canvas of twelve feet by twenty-one feet and three inches, covered entirely in shades of blue. It may be his masterpiece or it may not; he doesn't know, nor does he particularly care.<br><br>What Kevin does care about are the events of the past: the affair he had with a young artist in Paris ten years ago and, further back, his journey to an El Salvador on the brink of war to retrieve Richard’s drug-dealing brother. <i>So Much Blue</i> is a brilliant examination of how the past collides with present, and the secrets we keep from even ourselves.<br><br><b>Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.</b><br><br><b>‘<i>So Much Blue</i> is such a perfectly structured novel . . . A generous, thrilling book by a man who might well be America's most under-recognized literary master’ <i>NPR</i></b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-03-21 |