LEAVING VAN GOGH
Book ID/图书代码： 04332808B27173
English Summary/英文概要： In the summer of 1890, in the French town of Auvers-sur-Oise, Vincent van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a revolver. He died two days later, at the age of thirty-seven, largely unknown despite having completed over two thousand works of art that would go on to become some of the most important and valued in the world.
In this riveting novel, Carol Wallace brilliantly navigates the mysteries surrounding the master artist’s death, relying on meticulous research to paint an indelible portrait of Van Gogh’s final days—and the friendship that may or may not have destroyed him. Telling Van Gogh’s story from an utterly new perspective—that of his personal physician, Dr. Gachet, specialist in mental illness and great lover of the arts—Wallace allows us to view the legendary painter as we’ve never seen him before. In our narrator’s eyes, Van Gogh is an irresistible puzzle, a man whose mind, plagued by demons, poses the most potentially rewarding challenge of Gachet’s career.
Wallace’s narrative brims with suspense and rich psychological insight as it tackles haunting questions about Van Gogh’s fate. A masterly, gripping novel that explores the price of creativity, Leaving Van Gogh is a luminous story about what it means to live authentically, and the power and limits of friendship.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 藝術的恩典與不幸? 1890年的夏末，也是梵谷生命中的最後九週，他在奧維小鎮拿著一把左輪手槍，朝自己的胸膛開了一槍，兩天之後年僅37歲的生命就這麼宣告離開人世。梵谷超過兩千多件的成品或未完成的著作，從此成為後世難以估計的藝術遺產。
透過小說以不尋常的視角，在心理醫生Gachet敘述從1888年初次與梵谷見面，當時梵谷在藝術界的未來原是一片光明，但卻種種莫名原因的打擊而放棄自己。他對藝術創造力的靈感來源，竟是成為他死亡的因素。藝術擁有改變世人看待世界面向的力量，但也因藝術，梵谷之死成為難解之謎…
梵谷身上擁有上天的恩典與不幸，透過作者筆下的心理醫生敘述這位深受精神疾病所苦的藝術家在世的最後一年。(Vicky & Chris)
Awards/获奖情况：北美以六位數字由Spiegel & Grau取得版權
被譽為兼具小說家寫作天份與藝術史家研究精神的天才作家
Carol Wallace
把梵谷這位藝術大師不被人知曉的過去 以小說方式精彩呈現 Reviews
"How did Carol Wallace do this? Her novel so thrillingly and compassionately illuminates the tragic life of Vincent van Gogh that he is now lodged in my heart like a beloved lost relative. I am awed and enthralled, and so grateful for this perfect blend of artistic authority and suberb storytelling."---Elinor Lipman, author of The Family Man 埃莉諾‧李普曼（Elinor Lipman）
"Carol Wallace’s new novel is a wonderfully rich exploration of the deep interconnectedness of art and madness, friendship and therapy, hope and despair. And through Wallace’s estimable talent, Vincent van Gogh, one of the most fascinating figures in the history of any art form, acts and speaks and passionately lives with absolute authenticity. Leaving Van Gogh is a remarkable imaginative achievement and an utterly compelling read."---Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain 普立茲獎得主 羅伯特‧奧倫‧巴特勒(Robert Olen Butler).
"A haunting novel of bold strokes and fine-grained gestures, one that resonates long after its last, luminous page. In Carol Wallace’s masterful hands Van Gogh’s pictures spring to life every bit as brilliantly as does the painter himself."---Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra: A Life 史黛西薛佛《埃及豔后 克麗奧佩特拉的一生》
"This sensitively written novel, with its many passages of deep beauty and insight, reveals the tragic Van Gogh as clearly as if he sat across your room. Told by the aging doctor who wants to rectify the one great failure of his own life by saving the distraught artist who perhaps does not wish to be saved, Leaving Van Gogh is a moving and profound book about the preciousness of the gifts of art and love and what we can mean to each other."---Stephanie Cowell, author of Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet 史蒂芬妮‧考威爾《莫內與他的情人》
"Beautifully textured, painterly, and insightful—reading this book is like stepping into one of Van Gogh’s paintings."---Rebecca Stott , author of Ghostwalk 蕾蓓嘉‧斯托特《夜訪牛頓》
"A rich, meticulously researched novel that probes the passion of genius, and the demands of love and friendship. With a painterly eye, Wallace translates Van Gogh’s dazzling canvases into luminous prose and lets the reader see the universe as the great Impressionist did."---Ellen Feldman, author of Lucy and Scottsboro 艾倫‧費爾德曼
"Carol Wallace’s Leaving Van Gogh is an act of wondrous ventriloquism not to be missed: the last months of Vincent van Gogh’s life, narrated by the mysterious and marvelous Dr. Gachet, Van Gogh’s physician, and a tale of love, of madness, of art—and of genius and grief—told with the tender courage of a good friend."---Brenda Wineapple, author of White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
About the Author/作者介绍： Carol Wallace is the author of numerous books, including The Official Preppy Handbook, which she coauthored. Leaving Van Gogh is her first historical novel. A graduate of Princeton University, Wallace received a M.A. in art history from Columbia University in 2006. The research for her M.A. thesis provided the foundation for Leaving Van Gogh. Wallace lives in New York.
Carol Wallace被譽為兼具小說家寫作天份與藝術史家研究精神的天才作家，曾出版過22本非小說與童書，這是她的第一本歷史小說。
Carol取得哥倫比亞大學藝術史碩士學位。富懷藝術天份的她，根據對梵谷作品與最後在世的日子所做出重要的分析，而創作此書。媲美莎拉‧杜南特的《維納斯的誕生》及《戴珍珠耳環的少女》。她也在紐約成立梵谷基金會，把這位藝術大師不被人知曉的過去，以小說方式精彩呈現。
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