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Tuesday Nights in 1980

By Molly Prentiss

Tuesday Nights in 1980 book

Tuesday Nights in 1980

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A “thrilling, vibrant debut” (Marie Claire) that follows a critic, an artist, and a desirous, determined young woman as they find their way—and ultimately collide—amid the ever-evolving New York City art scene of the 1980s. Welcome to SoHo at the onset of the eighties: a gritty, not-yet-gentrified playground for artists and writers looking to make it in the big city. Among them: James Bennett, a synesthetic art critic for The New York Times whose unlikely condition enables him to describe art in profound, magical ways, and Raul Engales, an exiled Argentinian painter running from his past and the Dirty War that has enveloped his country. As the two men ascend in the downtown arts scene, dual tragedies strike, and each is faced with a loss that acutely affects his relationship to life and to art. It is not until they are inadvertently brought together by Lucy Olliason—a small town beauty and Raul’s muse—and a young orphan boy sent mysteriously from Buenos Aires, that James and Raul are able to rediscover some semblance of what they’ve lost. “Innovative to the max” (Bustle) and reminiscent as Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From The Goon Squad and as sweeping as Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings, Tuesday Nights in 1980 boldly renders a complex moment when the meaning and nature of art is being all but upended, and New York City as a whole is reinventing itself. In “vivid and sensitive” (Vulture) prose that is as powerful as it is playful, Molly Prentiss deftly explores the need for beauty, community, creation, and love in an ever-changing urban landscape.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
351
Release Date:
2017-05-02
Publication Date:
2017-05-02
Publisher:
Gallery/Scout Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1501121057
ISBN13:
9781501121050
Weight:
363 g
Height:
135 cm
Width:
208 cm
Thickness:
23 cm

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