Lust For Life (Paperback)

Irving Stone

ISBN 10: 1787461394 / ISBN 13: 9781787461390

Published by Cornerstone, London, 2018

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Paperback. The Classic Fictional Biography of Vincent Van GoghLust for Life is the classic fictional re-telling of the incredible life of Vincent Van Gogh."Vincent is not dead. He will never die. His love, his genius, the great beauty he has created will go on forever, enriching the world. He was a colossus. a great painter. a great philosopher. a martyr to his love of art. "Walking down the streets of Paris the young Vincent Van Gogh didn't feel like he belonged. Battling poverty, repeated heartbreak and familial obligation, Van Gogh was a man plagued by his own creative urge but with no outlet to express it. Until the day he picked up a paintbrush.Written with raw insight and emotion, follow the artist through his tormented life, struggling against critical discouragement and mental turmoil and bare witness to his creative journey from a struggling artist to one of the world's most celebrated artists. Lust for Life is the classic fictional re-telling of the incredible life of Vincent Van Gogh. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lust For Life (Paperback)
• Publisher: Cornerstone, London
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1787461394
• ISBN 13: 9781787461390
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Lust for Life is the classic fictional re-telling of the incredible life of Vincent Van Gogh.

“Vincent is not dead. He will never die. His love, his genius, the great beauty he has created will go on forever, enriching the world… He was a colossus… a great painter… a great philosopher… a martyr to his love of art. “

Walking down the streets of Paris the young Vincent Van Gogh didn’t feel like he belonged. Battling poverty, repeated heartbreak and familial obligation, Van Gogh was a man plagued by his own creative urge but with no outlet to express it. Until the day he picked up a paintbrush.

Written with raw insight and emotion, follow the artist through his tormented life, struggling against critical discouragement and mental turmoil and bare witness to his creative journey from a struggling artist to one of the world’s most celebrated artists.

About the Author

Irving Stone was born in San Francisco in 1903 and received his B. A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1923 and his Master's degree from the University of Southern California in 1924. He wrote plays and supported himself by writing detective stories until the publication of Lust for Life, his first novel, in 1934, Stone called his work 'bio-history' and based his novels on meticulous and extensive research into the lives of the historical characters at the heart of his novels. He married his editor, Jean Factor, in 1934. He founded the Academy of American Poets in 1962. He died in Los Angeles in 1989.