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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Stern, Steve, 1947- author.     Subjects     Soutine, Chaim, 1893-1943 -- Fiction.     Painters -- France -- Fiction.     Jewish artists -- Fiction.     Paris (France) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Stern, Steve, 1947- author.       by title:      The village idiot : ...         MARC Display

The village idiot : a novel / Steve Stern. by Stern, Steve, 1947- author. Brooklyn : Melville House, 2022. Subjects Soutine, Chaim, 1893-1943 -- Fiction.   Painters -- France -- Fiction.   Jewish artists -- Fiction.   Paris (France) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781612199825 (hardcover) 1612199828 (hardcover) Description:  361 pages : illustration ; 24 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  A wild, effervescent, absinthe-soaked novel that tells of the life of the extraordinary artist Chaim Soutine. Steve Stern's astonishing new novel The Village Idiot begins on a glorious spring day in Paris 1917. Amid the carnage of World War I, some of the foremost artists of the age have chosen to stage a boat race. At the head of the regatta is Amedeo Modigliani, seated regally in a bathtub pulled by a flock of canvasback ducks. But unbeknownst to the competition, he has a secret advantage: his young friend, the immigrant painter Chaim Soutine, is hauling the tub from underwater. Soutine, an unwashed, misfit artist (who incidentally can't swim) has been persuaded by the Italian to don a ponderous diving suit and trudge along the floor of the river Seine. Disoriented and confused by the artificial air in his helmet Chaim stumbles through the events of his past and future life. It's quite an extraordinary life. From his impoverished beginnings in an East European shtetl to his equally destitute days in Paris during the Anňes Folles, the Crazy Years, from the Cinderella patronage of the American collector Albert Barnes, who raises him from poverty to international attention, to his perilous flight from the Nazi occupation of France, Chaim Soutine remains driven by his unrelenting passion to paint. To be sure, there are notable distractions, such as his unlikely friendship with Modigliani, who drags him from brothels to midnight felonies to a duel at dawn; there are the romances with remarkable women who compete with and sometimes salvage his obsession. But there is also, always on the horizon, the coming storm that threatens to sweep away Chaim and a generation of gifted Jewish refugees from a tradition that would outlaw their longing to make art. Wildly inventive, as funny as it is heart-breaking, The Village Idiot is a luminous fever-dream of a novel, steeped in the heady atmosphere of a Paris that was the cultural capital of the universe, a place where anything seemed possible.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hana P/S Library Adult Fiction Stern Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Fiction Stern Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Fiction Stern Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kealakekua Public Library Adult Fiction Stern Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Fiction Stern Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Fiction Stern Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pahoa P/S Library Adult Fiction Stern Checked In Add Copy to MyList Thelma Parker Memorial P/S Library Adult Fiction Stern Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wailuku Public Library Adult Fiction Stern Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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