Delcorso's Gallery
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A gripping work of literary fiction, Delcorso's Gallery chronicles the harrowing journey of Nick DelCorso, a seasoned war photographer whose lens has captured the world's most brutal conflicts but whose personal life is unraveling under the weight of his obsessions. Philip Caputo, himself a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Vietnam veteran, brings an unflinching authenticity to the story, drawing on his own experiences to render the psychological toll that bearing witness to violence exacts on those who make it their profession. Set against the backdrop of the Lebanese Civil War in the early 1980s, the novel illustrates how the pursuit of the perfect, devastating image becomes an addiction that corrodes marriages, friendships, and moral compasses alike. Caputo writes with the taut, visceral authority of someone who has stood in the same dangerous places as his protagonist, producing a narrative that is both a war story and a penetrating character study of a man caught between artistic ambition and human decency.
Author: Philip Caputo
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A gripping work of literary fiction, Delcorso's Gallery chronicles the harrowing journey of Nick DelCorso, a seasoned war photographer whose lens has captured the world's most brutal conflicts but whose personal life is unraveling under the weight of his obsessions. Philip Caputo, himself a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Vietnam veteran, brings an unflinching authenticity to the story, drawing on his own experiences to render the psychological toll that bearing witness to violence exacts on those who make it their profession. Set against the backdrop of the Lebanese Civil War in the early 1980s, the novel illustrates how the pursuit of the perfect, devastating image becomes an addiction that corrodes marriages, friendships, and moral compasses alike. Caputo writes with the taut, visceral authority of someone who has stood in the same dangerous places as his protagonist, producing a narrative that is both a war story and a penetrating character study of a man caught between artistic ambition and human decency.