by Irving Stone · Random House · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099416425
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«Lust for Life» is Irving Stone's biographical novel about Vincent van Gogh, published by Random House in paperback (430 pages, in English).
The novel narrates Vincent van Gogh's life from his youth to his consecration as a painter, with special attention to his financial difficulties, his romantic disappointments and his mental health. It recreates the atmosphere of Post-Impressionist Paris and the evolution of his painting, presenting the artist as a creator obsessed with his work and at the same time isolated by it.
Originally published in 1934, this 1990 edition shows on the cover the subtitle «The classic novel of Vincent Van Gogh».
For readers of historical fiction and biographical fiction interested in Vincent van Gogh and Post-Impressionist art.
Irving Stone was an American writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians, and intellectuals. Among the best known are Lust for Life (1934), about the life of Vincent van Gogh, and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961), about Michelangelo.
