Envy

✍ Scribed by Elkann, Alain;McEwen, Alastair

• Publisher: Steerforth Press; Pushkin Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 87 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: London
• ISBN: 1908968591

✦ Synopsis

As the result of a series of fortuitous encounters and circumstances, a writer falls victim to an obsessive curiosity about the famous artist Julian Sax. He would like to meet Sax, but the great painter is surrounded by an almost impenetrable protective screen. The writer's wife, the charming and sensuous Rossa, eventually takes him to a tea room in London, where Sax spends a few hours of each day accompanied by his children, models and friends. The narrator begins to fear that his wife Rossa might succumb to the charms of this seductive man, who attracts women, paints them and then discards t.;Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; PART ONE: CHANCE ENCOUNTERS; 1: LONDON; 2: MADRID; 3: NEW YORK; 4: ROME; 5: LONDON; 6: ROME; 7: LONDON; PART TWO: THE BIRTH OF AN OBSESSION; 1: LONDON; 2: TONY'S; PART THREE: WOMEN; 1: NEW YORK; 2: LONDON; 3: PROVENCE; 4: ROSSA; PART FOUR: TOWARDS ENVY; 1: LONDON; 2: SAX; 3: THE SUNDAY TIMES; PART FIVE: THE GENESIS OF A NOVEL; 1: LONDON; 2: VENICE; 3: NEW YORK; 4: ROSSA; PART SIX: LISA AND TED; 1: PARIS; 2: CAPRI; 3: LONDON; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Also Available from Pushkin Press; Abut the Publisher; Copyright.

✦ Subjects

LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian