by Frederic Tuten · Granta Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781862072312
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«Van Gogh's Bad Cafe: A Love Story» is the historical fiction novel by Frederic Tuten, published by Granta Books in paperback (176 pages, in English).
In 1890, Vincent van Gogh faces his final days absorbed in painting and in an intense relationship with Ursula, a 19-year-old photographer addicted to morphine. A twist of fate transports her to 1990s New York, where she keeps dreaming of the painter and of the era she has left behind. Two eras and two worlds cross paths in a story about love and art.
Novel originally published in 1997 as Van Gogh's Bad Café; this Granta Books edition came out in 1999.
Aimed at the general reader, it suits those who enjoy historical fiction and the art world.
Frederic Tuten is an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He has written five novels – The Adventures of Mao on the Long March (1971), Tallien: A Brief Romance (1988), Tintin in the New World : A Romance (1993), Van Gogh's Bad Café (1997) and The Green Hour (2002) – as well as one book of inter-related short stories, Self-Portraits: Fictions (2010), and essays, many of the latter being about contemporary art. His memoir My Young Life (2019) was published by Simon & Schuster. In 2022, he published a collection of short stories, The Bar at Twilight, and On a Terrace in Tangier, a book of Tuten's drawings, each drawing accompanied by a short story. Tuten received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction and was given the Award for Distinguished Writing from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was awarded four Pushcart Prizes and one O. Henry Prize.
