Life of David Hockney
A Novel
Named a Best Book of the Year by The AdvocateCatherine Cusset's book caught a lot of me. I could recognize myself. -David HockneyWith clear, vivid prose, this meticulously researched novel draws an intimate, moving portrait of the most famous living English painter.Born in 1937 in a small town in the north of England, David Hockney had to fight to become an artist. After leaving his home in Bradford for the Royal College of Art in London, his career flourished, but he continued to struggle with a sense of not belonging, because of his homosexuality, which had yet to be decriminalized, and his inclination for a figurative style of art not suff…
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Weitere Autoren: Fagan, Teresa
- ISBN: 978-1-59051-983-7
- EAN: 9781590519837
- Produktnummer: 28452640
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
Über den Autor
Catherine Cusset was born in Paris in 1963. A graduate of the École normale supérieure in Paris and agrégée in Classics, she taught eighteenth-century French literature at Yale from 1991 to 2002. She is the author of thirteen novels, including The Story of Jane and L'autre qu'on adorait (short-listed for the 2016 Prix Goncourt), and has been translated into seventeen languages. Cusset lives in Manhattan with her American husband and daughter. Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator. She has published more than a dozen book-length translations, including Jean Bottéro's The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia and Yannick Haenel's Hold Fast Your Crown.
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