Overview
A dangerous intimacy emerges between a French teacher and a former student who has achieved art world celebrity: the painting of a portrait upturns both their lives.
A French teacher on the verge of retirement is invited to a glittering opening that showcases the artwork of his former student, who has since become a celebrated painter. This unexpected encounter leads to the older man posing for his portrait. Possibly in the nude. Such personal exposure at close range entails a strange and troubling pact between artist and sitter that prompts both to reevaluate their lives. Blondel, author of the hugely popular novel The 6:41 to Paris, evokes an intimacy of dangerous intensity in a tale marked by profound nostalgia and a reckoning with the past that allows its two characters to move ahead in to the future.
- | Author: Jean-Philippe Blondel, Alison Anderson
- | Publisher: New Vessel Press
- | Publication Date: Jul 18, 2019
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781939931672
- | ISBN-10: 1939931673