{"product_id":"life-of-david-hockney-paperback","title":"Life of David Hockney - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCatherine Cusset\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTeresa Fagan\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe Advocate\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Catherine Cusset's book caught a lot of me. I could recognize myself.\" --David Hockney \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith clear, vivid prose, this meticulously researched novel draws an intimate, moving portrait of the most famous living English painter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in 1937 in a small town in the north of England, David Hockney had to fight to become an artist. After leaving his home in Bradford for the Royal College of Art in London, his career flourished, but he continued to struggle with a sense of not belonging, because of his homosexuality, which had yet to be decriminalized, and his inclination for a figurative style of art not sufficiently \"contemporary\" to be valued. Trips to New York and California--where he would live for many years and paint his iconic swimming pools--introduced him to new scenes and new loves, beginning a journey that would take him through the fraught years of the AIDS epidemic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A compelling hybrid of novel and biography, \u003ci\u003eLife of David Hockney\u003c\/i\u003e offers an insightful overview of a painter whose art is as accessible as it is compelling, and whose passion to create has never been deterred by heartbreak or illness or loss.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatherine Cusset \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Paris in 1963. A graduate of the École normale supérieure in Paris and \u003ci\u003eagrégée\u003c\/i\u003e in Classics, she taught eighteenth-century French literature at Yale from 1991 to 2002. She is the author of thirteen novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Jane\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eL'autre qu'on adorait\u003c\/i\u003e (short-listed for the 2016 Prix Goncourt), and has been translated into seventeen languages. Cusset lives in Manhattan with her American husband and daughter.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTeresa Lavender Fagan \u003c\/b\u003eis a freelance translator. She has published more than a dozen book-length translations, including Jean Bottéro's \u003ci\u003eThe Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia\u003c\/i\u003e and Yannick Haenel's \u003ci\u003eHold Fast Your Crown\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 14, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771227930912,"sku":"9781590519837","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5347ae0e92b09b482b6748b291f68abc.webp?v=1780383539","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/life-of-david-hockney-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}