A splendid new biography—vivid, intimate, scrupulously accurate yet reads like a novel. As we read Callow we feel closer to that tormented genius. —Olivier Bernier, Newsday. A Book-of-the-Month Club Alternate Selection.
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Concise...a useful primer on the life and work of van Gogh for the art enthusiast. (Elaine Cobos Kliatt )
Vivid and accurate...so scrupulously intimate that this book reads more like a novel. (Oliver Bernier Newsday )
Vivid and accurate...so scrupulously intimate that this book reads more like a novel. (Oliver Bernier Newsday )
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Philip Callow's biographies of D. H. Lawrence, Son and Lover and Body of Truth, were widely praised. Mr. Callow, himself a novelist, poet, and biographer, has also written lives of Chekhov, Cézanne, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Walt Whitman, all published to critical acclaim. Mr. Callow lives and writes in England.
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