$38.51
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2018
Summary
Lust for Life: The Classic Fictional Biography of Vincent Van Gogh
“Vincent is not dead. He will never die. His love, his genius, the great beauty he has created will go on forever, enriching the world… He was a colossus… a great painter… a great philosopher… a martyr to his love of art.”
Walking down the streets of Paris, the young Vincent Van Gogh didn’t feel like he belonged. Battling poverty, repeated heartbreak, and familial obligation, Van Gogh was a man plagued by his…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787461390 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787461394 |
| Author: | Irving Stone |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2018 |
| Weight: | 346g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 30mm |
About The Author
Irving Stone
Irving Stone was born in San Francisco in 1903 and received his B. A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1923 and his Master’s degree from the University of Southern California in 1924. He wrote plays and supported himself by writing detective stories until the publication of Lust for Life, his first novel, in 1934. Stone called his work ‘bio-history’ and based his novels on meticulous and extensive research into the lives of the historical characters at the heart of his novels. He married his editor, Jean Factor, in 1934. He founded the Academy of American Poets in 1962. He died in Los Angeles in 1989.
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