The Horse's Mouth (New York Review Books Classics)
by Joyce Cary
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Author: Joyce CaryIntroduction: Brad Leithauser
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-10-31
ISBN: 0940322196
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: NYRB Classics
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Book Review: Joyce Carey's best, which says a lot
Summary: 5 Stars
For me this is Joyce Carey's most intense and elated novel. Steeped in William Blake, laid out like a carcase in the rubble of post-war Britain. It's gritty, wild, and dogged in its obsession with the artist's soul. Also lot's of fun. After I read it the film came out and I saw it too. The film can't have the same depth and breadth of course, but it's also terrific. The message: Don't follow. Get out there. Take Me With You When You Go
Summary of The Horse's Mouth (New York Review Books Classics)
The Horse's Mouth, the third and most celebrated volume of Joyce Cary's First Trilogy, is perhaps the finest novel ever written about an artist. Its painter hero, the charming and larcenous Gulley Jimson, has an insatiable genius for creation and a no less remarkable appetite for destruction. Is he a great artist? a has-been? or an exhausted, drunken ne'er-do-well? He is without doubt a visionary, and as he criss-crosses London in search of money and inspiration the world as seen though his eyes appears with a newly outrageous and terrible beauty.Contemporary Books
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