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The God of Spring

The God of Spring


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When the French painter Theodore Gericault died in 1824 at the age of thirty-three, he was mourned as one of the most promising artists of his generation. He was also one of the most controversial, endowed with a character marked by Byronic paradoxes. The cult of Gericault's personality cast him as "genius, athlete, martyr, and romantic ghoul." Indeed, it was the stinging aftermath of an illicit affair with his beautiful young aunt that propelled Gericault into the artistic obsession that would yield his masterwork, The Raft of the Medusa. The God of Spring opens in Paris in 1818, as the upheavals of the French Revolution, the Empire, and the Restoration come to fruition in the aftermath of a naval disaster caused by criminal negligence and tinged with political scandal. Mesmerized by the tales of betrayal, madness, murder, and cannibalism aboard the life raft of the scuttled French frigate Medusa, Gericault takes as his muses two of its survivors. His canvas pits man against nature, its dominant image a doomed sailor futilely raising his hand toward the clouds and salvation.

About the Author :
Arabella Edge read English literature at the University of Bristol in the UK and moved to Australia in 1992. With her husband, Nick Gaze, she now divides her time between Sydney and Bicheno, on Tasmania's east coast. Her first novel, The Company, won the Best First Book in the 2001 Commonwealth Writers' Prize in the South East Asia and South Pacific Region and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award.

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"A gripping novel of artistic obsession [that] capture[s] some awesome truth about the plight of the human condition....This is art history on fire." -- Ron Charles, The Washington Post "A thoughtful and richly imagined story about the darker aspects of the artistic process and the costs of obsession." -- Publishers Weekly "The brilliant research and excellent pacing by the author of the awardwinning The Company make this a one-sitting read. This portrait of the author's torment is so well told and so perfectly realized that it expresses the struggle of all artists to create." -- Wendy Bethel, Library Journal Reviews (starred review) "Full-blown, visceral, throbbing with energy and barbaric violence, and utterly compelling." -- Mary Philip, The Courier Mail (Australia) "Page-turning and substantial, a rare combination." -- John Harding, Daily Mail (London) "Edge's subject is rich with fascination...The writing takes on a compelling vividness that keeps the pages turning.... You come away from The God of Spring thinking of art, politics and the sheer strangeness of things." -- Juliette Hughes, The Sydney Morning Herald "Arabella Edge describes the extremes of human emotion here with empathy and panache." -- Warren Brewer, Hobart Mercury (Australia) "A one-sitting read...So well told and so perfectly realized that it expresses the struggle of all artists to create." -- Wendy Bethel, Library Journal (starred review) "Intensely pictorial, keenly sensitive to the artist's eye for color, form, and the swirling context of humanity and landscape that feeds his hungry imagination." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A gripping novel of artistic obsession...Transcend[s] the details of this particular disaster to capture some awesome truth about the plight of the human condition...This is art history on fire." -- Ron Charles, The Washington Post Book World


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780743294850
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publisher Imprint: Simon & Schuster
  • Height: 216 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 465 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0743294858
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 140 mm


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