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Saint Sebastian's abyss / Mark Haber.
Van Pelt Library PS3608.A23835 S25 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haber, Mark, 1972- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art critics--Europe--Fiction.
- Art critics.
- Genre:
- novels.
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 144 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- "Former best friends who built their careers writing about a single work of art meet after a decades-long falling-out. One of them, called to the other's deathbed for unknown reasons by way of a "relatively short" nine page email, spends his flight to Berlin reflecting on Dutch Renaissance painter Count Hugo Beckenbauer and his masterpiece, Saint Sebastian's Abyss, the work that established both men as important art critics and also destroyed their relationship. A darkly comic meditation on art, obsession, and the enigmatic power of friendship, Saint Sebastian's Abyss stalks the museum halls of Europe, feverishly seeking salvation, annihilation, and the meaning of belief"-- Provided by publisher.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781566896368
- 1566896363
- OCLC:
- 1267687082
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