The Blue Bowl ***SIGNED***
Language: English
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 2004
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: William Ross, Jr., Annapolis, MD, U.S.A.William Ross, Jr.
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- Title
- The Blue Bowl ***SIGNED***
- Author
- George Minot
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, NY
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Very Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Fine
- Signed
- Signed
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 039457348X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394573489
- Edition
- First Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
The time is the 1990s. Simon Curtis, in his mid-thirties, is a painter - a yearning, troubled loner still burdened with the unfinished business of childhood. He seeks refuge for the summer in his family's house in Maine, and then, for the fall, in their place in Massachusetts - despite his father's insistence that he is not welcome. Simon hides out in his old room, sneaking around unobserved, and secretly watches his father - a remote, eloquent alcoholic who has never seriously noticed him to begin with, and whom Simon blames for everything, including his mother's death.
When his father is found dead, Simon is thrust into the center of a news-making trial, under the spotlight in a mad media circus. Instead of despairing, he responds as if life has never been better. In the past, he has always been alone, floating in the curious dimension of his art. Now everyone is paying attention to him. Now his life is happening, on a surprising and grand stage.
As the narrative deepens - infusing Simon's tenuous grasp of present-day reality with his disconnected distress and the lost idyll of his boyhood - Minot creates a portrait of the disaffected child-man brought face-to-face with the dreamworld of his past and the frightening reality of the present.
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