Night Blue

✍ Scribed by Angela, O’Keeffe

• Book ID: 115143132
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 183 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781925760774

✦ Synopsis

Potent, haunting and lyrical, Night Blue is a debut novel like no other, a narrative largely told in the voice of the painting Blue Poles. It is a truly original and absorbing approach to revisiting Jackson Pollock and his wife Lee Krasner as artists and people, as well as a realigning our ideas around the cultural legacy of Whitlam's purchase of Blue Poles in 1973.

It is also the story of Alyssa, and a contemporary relationship, in which Angela O'Keeffe immerses us in the essential power of art to change our personal lives and, by turns, a nation.

Moving between New York and Australia with fluid ease, Night Blue is intimate and tender, yet surprisingly dramatic. It is a glorious exploration of how art must never be undervalued.

'Intimate, sublime, this work shines.' -- Favel Parrett, author of Past the Shallows and There Was Still Love

'Intelligent and poignant, Night Blue traverses the boundaries between language and art in a delicious tour de force. I found it...