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Saint Sebastian's Abyss

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Saint Sebastian's Abyss

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Description
"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"--
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
200
Release Date:
2022-05-10
Publication Date:
2022-06-23
Publisher:
Coffee House Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1566896363
ISBN13:
9781566896368
Weight:
184 g
Height:
124 cm
Width:
193 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
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