ARTIST OF THE MISSING PB - Softcover

LaFarge, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374525803 ISBN 13: 9780374525804

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999

Synopsis

Frank, a young artist, arrives in the city hoping to unravel the mystery of his parents' disappearance. He begins working as a washer of robes at a hotel for itinerant judges. There he meets and falls in love with Prudence, a forensic photographer whose pictures reveal the secrets of the dead.

When Prudence disappears, Frank sets out in search of her, a quest that leads him into the shadowy world of a revolutionary salon, then to prison, and finally to discover the city's strange secrets and the secrets of his own heart.

A haunting novel, The Artist of the Missing is a stunning debut, both a richly imagined evocation of another world and a piercing examination of the mystery of love, and beautifully illustrated by the acclaimed artist Stephen Alcorn.

A visionary novel about love, loss, imagination, and despair.

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Review:

"An exuberant tale full of wonders conceived by a young writer with a dazzling command of language and an imagination that brings to mind the otherworlds of Kafka, Swift, and Frank Baum. There is no escapism, for while the trials of his hero are enchanting, they reflect real fears of a present in which connections are fleeting, memory devalued, love a simulation. What's missing is true feeling and the storyteller's art which LaFarge so beautifully supplies." --Maureen Howard

About the Author:

Paul La Farge lives in San Francisco. The Artist of the Missing is his first novel.

Stephen Alcorn studied printmaking in Italy and illustrated the Modern Library series. He is the 1998 recipient of the Carter G. Woodson Book Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0374525803
• ISBN 13: 9780374525804
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256