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"If an encyclopedia is a concise compendium of man's knowledge, Andy Warhol's novel is the obverse - a total experience of a daily life raised to a fever pitch of brilliancy, vagueness, hilarity, confusion, and insight through the abnormally extreme personalities of his real-life characters"--Dust jacket flap.
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"The turbulent life of Vincent Van Goh is the basis for Irving Stone's best-selling novel. Out of the misery of the painter's struggle for existence and the magnificence he achieved in his art, there is woven his profoundly moving life-story. Van Gogh worked, fought and created with some of the most celebrated men of the century: Gaguin, Zola, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec; and he lived with some of the most abject human beings of his time. In the pages of Lust for Life, Van Gogh is indicated as man and artist, and his tormented career is revealed with understanding and compassion"--Dust jacket flap.
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A thriller set in the New York art world. The protagonist is a gallery owner who deals in forgeries. When the artist he employs is murdered by robbers halfway through a painting, the man's problems begin. A Japanese gangster has placed a hefty deposit for--he thinks--a genuine Monet, which the artist was forging.
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"Evelyn Waugh was one of literature's great curmudgeons and a scathingly funny satirist. Scoop is a comedy of England's newspaper business of the 1930s and the story of William Boot, a innocent hick from the country who writes careful essays about the habits of the badger. Through a series of accidents and mistaken identity, Boot is hired as a war correspondent for a Fleet Street newspaper. The uncomprehending Boot is sent to the fictional African country of Ishmaelia to cover an expected revolution. Although he has no idea what he is doing and he can't understand the incomprehensible telegrams from his London editors, Boot eventually gets the big story."--Amazon.com.
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Svengali exerts his strange and hypnotic influence over a beautiful young girl, in this classic story of a life in the Latin Quarter of Paris.
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Svengali exerts his strange and hypnotic influence over a beautiful young girl, in this classic story of a life in the Latin Quarter of Paris.
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