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Seeking the High Yellow Note: Vincent Van Gogh in Provence, a Novel

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For those who are passionate about Vincent Van Gogh, "Seeking the High Yellow Note" is a treat to be savored. Curl up with it by a window seat looking out at trees and gardens and imagine the colors and forms as Van Gogh would have seen them. Alice Williams paints the artist's canvasses again in words as Vincent describes the paintings to his young friend Minette. The author has captured the spirit of the impressionists and the flavors of Provence and of the time. She describes Vincent's loneliness and failed friendship with Gauguin, and his dread of recurrent descents into madness. The events of his months in Provence are interwoven into the story of Minette Ginoux as she comes of age, finds love, marries her sweetheart and provides friendship to the man who was a tortured genius.

What a glorious treat of Provence through the eyes of an impressionist young girl and her friendship with Vincent Van Gogh. This is such a cleverly crafted story that one has to continually remind one's self that it is a fictionalized account
of Van Gogh. I felt "bathed" in the yellows of his paintings and the countryside of Provence and was grateful to have a porfolio available to see the accuracy of this writer's descriptions. Bravo, Alice. Give us more of the same quality of writing.