Discipline
Autor Debra Sparken Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 mar 2024
Inspired by the life and family of Walt Kuhn (the painter responsible for the 1913 Armory Show that introduced Americans to modernism) and the scandal-ridden Elan boarding school that was forced to shut down in 2011, this richly drawn, suspenseful novel shows Spark at her most masterful.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781954245983
ISBN-10: 195424598X
Pagini: 316
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: FOUR WAY BOOKS
Colecția Four Way Books
ISBN-10: 195424598X
Pagini: 316
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: FOUR WAY BOOKS
Colecția Four Way Books
Recenzii
Debra Spark’s new novel brilliantly concerns itself with the intersection of art and relationships, the ways in which works of art live in the world as lightning rods for human passion, rage, love, and loneliness, and the ways in which this dynamic quality of art shapes the lives of people who come into intense contact with it. Discipline is one of those rare books I want to tell everyone to read immediately.
—Kate Christensen, Author of Welcome Home, Stranger
A wonderfully intricate, suspenseful—at times harrowing—and provocative novel about how a trio of eerily powerful paintings alter the lives of a host of wildly different people. Discipline is the best kind of mystery: full of surprising turns, compelling characters, and web-like connections slowly revealed over time. The meditations on art add to the vibrant complexity. Debra Spark is a terrific writer.
—Suzanne Berne, Author of The Blue Window
Paced like a mystery-thriller, Discipline is a marvel to behold: its twisty plot and richly detailed characters never take a false step in this fascinating exploration of art and trauma and what happens when the legacies of each intersect. Meticulously researched and impeccably written, this is a masterful novel written by a truly gifted artist. I was almost cheering by the end.
—Liam Callanan, Author of When in Rome
Discipline, Debra Spark’s propulsive new novel, held me in its grips from page one. By weaving together three storylines, each linked to a missing masterpiece and spanning nearly a century, Spark illustrates how art connects and transforms us. An immersive, insightful exploration of wealth and poverty, husbands and wives, mothers and sons, love, lies, and loneliness, Discipline is a literary page-turner that stuns with its beauty and grace.
—Jillian Medoff, Author of When We Were Bright and Beautiful
—Kate Christensen, Author of Welcome Home, Stranger
A wonderfully intricate, suspenseful—at times harrowing—and provocative novel about how a trio of eerily powerful paintings alter the lives of a host of wildly different people. Discipline is the best kind of mystery: full of surprising turns, compelling characters, and web-like connections slowly revealed over time. The meditations on art add to the vibrant complexity. Debra Spark is a terrific writer.
—Suzanne Berne, Author of The Blue Window
Paced like a mystery-thriller, Discipline is a marvel to behold: its twisty plot and richly detailed characters never take a false step in this fascinating exploration of art and trauma and what happens when the legacies of each intersect. Meticulously researched and impeccably written, this is a masterful novel written by a truly gifted artist. I was almost cheering by the end.
—Liam Callanan, Author of When in Rome
Discipline, Debra Spark’s propulsive new novel, held me in its grips from page one. By weaving together three storylines, each linked to a missing masterpiece and spanning nearly a century, Spark illustrates how art connects and transforms us. An immersive, insightful exploration of wealth and poverty, husbands and wives, mothers and sons, love, lies, and loneliness, Discipline is a literary page-turner that stuns with its beauty and grace.
—Jillian Medoff, Author of When We Were Bright and Beautiful
Notă biografică
Debra Spark is the author of four previous novels, two collections of short stories, and two books of essays about the craft of fiction. She also has edited or co-edited two anthologies. She teaches at Colby College and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
Extras
from Discipline
Something had gone wrong.
Gracie Thomas had arrived on the island just when she said she would, on the final ferry of the day, the winter light dimming over the course of the two-hour journey east, and she too preoccupied to enjoy the drama of the ocean, the air too bitterly cold for standing on deck, the filthy windows cloudy with condensation. A more avid lover of the great outdoors would have braved the temperatures, but when Gracie had to choose between the natural world and comfort, she opted for the latter. Camping or a flush toilet? The world’s greatest invention wins in a landslide!
By late afternoon, the question of the view was moot anyway, the day dark as midnight. Gracie’s mind was back in Boston, instead of on the Atlantic, her focus Jeremy, her 16-year-old son, the child whom she’d waited and waited and waited for, through one, two, three, four miscarriages, the one who was so, so, so wanted.
He had run away from home.
Something had gone wrong.
Gracie Thomas had arrived on the island just when she said she would, on the final ferry of the day, the winter light dimming over the course of the two-hour journey east, and she too preoccupied to enjoy the drama of the ocean, the air too bitterly cold for standing on deck, the filthy windows cloudy with condensation. A more avid lover of the great outdoors would have braved the temperatures, but when Gracie had to choose between the natural world and comfort, she opted for the latter. Camping or a flush toilet? The world’s greatest invention wins in a landslide!
By late afternoon, the question of the view was moot anyway, the day dark as midnight. Gracie’s mind was back in Boston, instead of on the Atlantic, her focus Jeremy, her 16-year-old son, the child whom she’d waited and waited and waited for, through one, two, three, four miscarriages, the one who was so, so, so wanted.
He had run away from home.