- Paperback: 325 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Non-Fiction; Reprint edition (Sep 13 1991)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0060974117
- ISBN-13: 978-0060974114
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.5 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,970,304 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
In this fictionalized life of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe, Cheuse ( The Grandmother's Club ) examines the artist's place in the world. As a young girl, Ava Boldin persuades her older brother to let her sketch him in the nude, displaying a commitment to her work that will transcend all other passions, even, later in life, drawing her away from her New York City home with her beloved husband, famed photographer Albert Stigmar (O'Keeffe was married to Alfred Stieglitz) to paint her vision in New Mexico. In intimate tones, Ava's friends and family talk about the artist and her work, the lodestone in their own efforts to live well and fully. Amy Cross, a young artist/writer, and Michael Gillen, Stigmar's bastard son, live with Ava in her last years, opening up her memories and ideas about art. Ava's geologist brother Robert and the desert landscape catch the most light in this unsurprising tale, which would have benefited from sterner editing. For the most part, Cheuse's beautifully used language plays only on the surface of characters and themes.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The light and vastness draw only those whose souls bleed.,
By jbosarge@yahoo.com (Washington State) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Light Possessed (Paperback)
Don't miss Rick Bass's Foreword. Then those who have lived in the East, been transplanted or at least traveled in the Southwest, fallen in love with the ochre and vermillion mix of color as it is beheld in New Mexican light, are those who will love the Georgia O'Keefeness of Alan Cheuse's story. The question of what is fact and what is fiction haunts the reader all the way through. I would remind the reader to accept the story for what it is rather than comparing what seem to be facts to the real life of the famous painter. Cheuse has sensitively captured the various voices of the characters who narrate. A bit slow-going at first, the pace picks up until the reader is pulled into the passion in spite of the seeming objectivity of the narrative style. Having been to the home of Georgia O'Keefe, and having reclaimed my soul that wandered there ahead of my visit, reading the novel was like returning home. I cannot help but wonder how a reader who has not experienced that "light possessed" can appreciate Cheuse's description of the Blue Mesa.
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The light and vastness draw only those whose souls bleed.,
By jbosarge@yahoo.com - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Light Possessed (Paperback)
Don't miss Rick Bass's Foreword. Then those who have lived in the East, been transplanted or at least traveled in the Southwest, fallen in love with the ochre and vermillion mix of color as it is beheld in New Mexican light, are those who will love the Georgia O'Keefeness of Alan Cheuse's story. The question of what is fact and what is fiction haunts the reader all the way through. I would remind the reader to accept the story for what it is rather than comparing what seem to be facts to the real life of the famous painter. Cheuse has sensitively captured the various voices of the characters who narrate. A bit slow-going at first, the pace picks up until the reader is pulled into the passion in spite of the seeming objectivity of the narrative style. Having been to the home of Georgia O'Keefe, and having reclaimed my soul that wandered there ahead of my visit, reading the novel was like returning home. I cannot help but wonder how a reader who has not experienced that "light possessed" can appreciate Cheuse's description of the Blue Mesa.
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