Exposed / Jean-Philippe Blondel ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: New York : New Vessel Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: v, 169 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781939931672
- 1939931673
- Mise à nu. English
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Fiction | Blondel, Jean-Phi | Available | 33111009408093 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A French teacher on the verge of retirement is invited to a glittering opening that showcases the artwork of his former student, who has since become a celebrated painter. This unexpected encounter leads to the older man posing for his portrait. Possibly in the nude. Such personal exposure at close range entails a strange and troubling pact between artist and sitter that prompts both to reevaluate their lives. Blondel, author of the hugely popular novel The 6:41 to Paris, evokes an intimacy of dangerous intensity in a tale marked by profound nostalgia and a reckoning with the past that allows its two characters to move ahead in to the future.
First published in French in 2018 as La mise a nu.
Translated to English from the French.
"A French teacher on the verge of retirement is invited to a glittering opening that showcases the artwork of his former student, who has since become a celebrated painter. This unexpected encounter leads to the older man posing for his portrait. Possibly in the nude. Such personal exposure at close range entails a strange and troubling pact between artist and sitter that prompts both to reevaluate their lives. Blondel, author of the hugely popular novel The 6:41 to Paris, evokes an intimacy of dangerous intensity in a tale marked by profound nostalgia and a reckoning with the past that allows its two characters to move ahead in to the future."--Publisher description.