Tiepolo Blue
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB FIRST NOVEL AWARD
'Divine . . . the smart, sexy read you need' Evening Standard
'Startlingly impressive' Daily Mail
'An electric new novel' Guardian
Exiled from his university position for an inexcusable blunder, art historian Don Lamb flees to London, a city alive with sex and creativity. There, over the course of a long, hot summer, as he is immersed in the anarchic art and gay scenes of the mid-90s, Don sees his carefully curated life irrevocably changed. But his epiphany is also a reckoning, as his unexamined past is revealed to him in a devastating new light.
Intense and atmospheric, Tiepolo Blue traces Don's turbulent awakening, and his desperate flight from art into life.
'Wildly enjoyable . . . A novel that combines formal elegance with gripping storytelling' Financial Times
'Dizzying and exciting and unsettling, and beautifully told' Reverend Richard Coles, Daily Mail
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"Tiepolo Blue" is a wonderful example for why goodreads reviews should never discourage you from picking up a book. I had already seen the hardcover many moons ago at my local bookshop but decided not to buy it - the reviews really were mediocre at best. But then, thankfully, the paperback version of this novel found its way to my on my recent trip to London, and what can I tell you? Reading it was an absolute delight. Middle-aged art historian Don Lamb loses his position as a professor in Cambridge. He retreats to London, where he spends his summer being immersed in the modern art and gay scene of the 1990s, a world formerly unknown to him. "So is this another story of a privileged white man finding himself?" you may ask, and the answer is: Yes, yes it is. This book is pretentious and overly descriptive, has barely any plot and so many art references you really need to keep a pencil and an open Google tab nearby.
Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB FIRST NOVEL AWARD
'Divine . . . the smart, sexy read you need' Evening Standard
'Startlingly impressive' Daily Mail
'An electric new novel' Guardian
Exiled from his university position for an inexcusable blunder, art historian Don Lamb flees to London, a city alive with sex and creativity. There, over the course of a long, hot summer, as he is immersed in the anarchic art and gay scenes of the mid-90s, Don sees his carefully curated life irrevocably changed. But his epiphany is also a reckoning, as his unexamined past is revealed to him in a devastating new light.
Intense and atmospheric, Tiepolo Blue traces Don's turbulent awakening, and his desperate flight from art into life.
'Wildly enjoyable . . . A novel that combines formal elegance with gripping storytelling' Financial Times
'Dizzying and exciting and unsettling, and beautifully told' Reverend Richard Coles, Daily Mail
Book Information
Posts
"Tiepolo Blue" is a wonderful example for why goodreads reviews should never discourage you from picking up a book. I had already seen the hardcover many moons ago at my local bookshop but decided not to buy it - the reviews really were mediocre at best. But then, thankfully, the paperback version of this novel found its way to my on my recent trip to London, and what can I tell you? Reading it was an absolute delight. Middle-aged art historian Don Lamb loses his position as a professor in Cambridge. He retreats to London, where he spends his summer being immersed in the modern art and gay scene of the 1990s, a world formerly unknown to him. "So is this another story of a privileged white man finding himself?" you may ask, and the answer is: Yes, yes it is. This book is pretentious and overly descriptive, has barely any plot and so many art references you really need to keep a pencil and an open Google tab nearby.