Lust For Life: A Life Of Vincent Van Gogh
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few lives burn with the ferocious intensity of Vincent Van Gogh's, and Irving Stone's Lust for Life captures that flame with breathtaking immediacy, chronicling the painter's turbulent journey from misfit preacher to one of history's most celebrated artistic visionaries. Set against the sun-scorched fields of Provence, the grey poverty of The Hague, and the feverish bohemian quarters of Paris, the novel immerses the reader in Vincent's relentless, all-consuming passion for colour, light, and human suffering — a passion that cost him his sanity, his relationships, and ultimately his life. Stone's masterful biographical fiction presents an unflinching portrait of artistic obsession, grounding grand themes of genius, sacrifice, and madness in the visceral, day-to-day reality of a man who sold only one painting in his lifetime yet produced over 2,000 works of staggering beauty. Drawing on Van Gogh's own voluminous letters to his devoted brother Theo, Stone reconstructs a psyche of extraordinary sensitivity and heartbreaking fragility, making Lust for Life as much an argument about the true cost of creative greatness as it is a riveting human drama. First published in 1934, this enduring classic continues to ignite a burning question in every reader: how much of the soul must an artist sacrifice before the world is ready to see what they saw?
Author: Irving Stone
Format: Hardback
Published: 1952
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few lives burn with the ferocious intensity of Vincent Van Gogh's, and Irving Stone's Lust for Life captures that flame with breathtaking immediacy, chronicling the painter's turbulent journey from misfit preacher to one of history's most celebrated artistic visionaries. Set against the sun-scorched fields of Provence, the grey poverty of The Hague, and the feverish bohemian quarters of Paris, the novel immerses the reader in Vincent's relentless, all-consuming passion for colour, light, and human suffering — a passion that cost him his sanity, his relationships, and ultimately his life. Stone's masterful biographical fiction presents an unflinching portrait of artistic obsession, grounding grand themes of genius, sacrifice, and madness in the visceral, day-to-day reality of a man who sold only one painting in his lifetime yet produced over 2,000 works of staggering beauty. Drawing on Van Gogh's own voluminous letters to his devoted brother Theo, Stone reconstructs a psyche of extraordinary sensitivity and heartbreaking fragility, making Lust for Life as much an argument about the true cost of creative greatness as it is a riveting human drama. First published in 1934, this enduring classic continues to ignite a burning question in every reader: how much of the soul must an artist sacrifice before the world is ready to see what they saw?