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Hace 2 días · Jay and Rob meet as art students in the UK in the mid-1990s. Not long after they’ve graduated, at a lock-in at a Shoreditch pub where everyone’s “riled up on cheap triples and terrible ...
Hace 3 días · As a whole, Blue Ruin is bracingly intelligent and often just plain beautiful. It’s a reminder that fiction, at its best, is a place to encounter new experiences and dwell in big ideas. Kunzru is known for ambitious novels that bring politics to rich, imaginative life; Blue Ruin shows him at the top of his game.
Hace 3 días · A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty and power, capital, art and those who devote their lives to creating itOnce, Jay was an artist. After graduating from art school in London, he was tipped for greatness, a promising career taking shape before him. That was not to happen. Now, undocumented in the United ...
Hace 3 días · Blue Ruin. The following is from Hari Kunzru's Blue Ruin. Kunzru is the author of six novels, Red Pill, White Tears, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, and The Impressionist. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and writes the “Easy Chair” column for Harper’s. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program ...
Hace 2 días · These novels are shrewd, nuanced, relevant and highly readable, but they are like an agon without a victor. The ideas are eloquently rehearsed, staged and dramatized but a judgement is ...
Hace 3 días · Give me a book about art and artists, and I’m a happy reader. I find Blue Ruin particularly interesting because it raises many questions about what art is, what it’s like to produce it, and how much of an artist’s life is performance. I’m still pondering it several days after finishing it. Jay is attending art school in London; just before he graduates, he destroys the paintings he’s ...
Hace 3 días · Gripping and brilliantly orchestrated, Blue Ruin moves back and forth through time to deliver an extraordinary portrait of an artist as he reunites with his past and confronts the world he once loved and left behind.
