Lust For Life(50th Anniversary Edn) - Softcover

Stone, Irving

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452262496 ISBN 13: 9780452262492

Publisher: Penguin, 1991

Synopsis

Since it's initial publication in 1934, Irving Stone's "Lust For Life" has been a critical success, a multimillion-copy bestseller, and the basis for an Academy Award-winning movie. The most famous of all of Stone's novels, it is the story of Vincent Van Gogh - brilliant painter, passionate lover, and alleged madman. Here is his tempestuous story: his dramatic life, his fevered loves for both the highest-born women and the lowest of prostitutes, and his paintings - for which he was damned before being proclaimed a genius. The novel takes us from his desperate days in a northern coal mine to his dazzling years in the south of France, where he knew the most brilliant artists (and the most depraved whores). Finally, it shows us Van Gogh driven mad, tragic and triumphant at once. No other novel of a great man's life has so fascinated the American public for generations.

About this title

Review:

"A story of excruciating power."--The New York Times

"Whoever reads Lust for Life will gain all the important facts concerning the life of the painter... a poetic and touching portrayal."--Christian Science Monitor

"Extraordinary! A moving story retold with sensitiveness and insight."--Forum

"Thorough, sympathetic, skillful."--Saturday Review of Literature

Book Description:

The classic fictional biography of Vincent Van Gogh.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0452262496
• ISBN 13: 9780452262492
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512