Leaving Van Gogh, Carol Wallace
Leaving Van Gogh, Carol Wallace
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Leaving Van Gogh

Author: Carol Wallace

Narrator: Luis Moreno

Unabridged: 10 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/19/2011


Synopsis

Leaving Van Gogh is Carol Wallace's first historical novel and it has created quite a buzz among genre luminaries. In this meticulously researched, heartrending story, Wallace re-creates the final fateful days of legendary painter Vincent Van Gogh-who, at the age of 37, shot himself long before his paintings became recognized as some of the world's greatest works of art. "A haunting novel of bold strokes and fine-grained gestures ."-Stacy Schiff, New York Times best-selling author

Reviews

Goodreads review by Annette on February 18, 2019

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western Art. At the age of 37, when he committed suicide, he was largely unknown despite having completed over 2,000 works of art that would later go on to becom......more

Goodreads review by Patty on May 21, 2011

Where to begin? This book captured my heart from its first pages and it still hasn't let go. Vincent van Gogh was a man of supreme artistic brilliance but a true lost soul when it came to living in the real world. Without the undying support of his brother Theo we might never have known the beauty o......more

Goodreads review by Florance on July 08, 2023

4.5 Great novel, author has a beautiful way of describing how someone paints and how the mind of an observant and skeptical doctor thinks.......more

Goodreads review by Ms.pegasus on September 15, 2012

Author Carol Wallace tackles a tough literary project, creating a fictional work about famed artist Vincent Van Gogh in the final year of his life. Readers will already have formed preconceptions about the artist. Integrating her own viewpoint with a core of historical accuracy, and expressing this......more

Goodreads review by Deborah on February 03, 2017

Best book of 2017 so far. Spellbinding. Beautiful. Very sad - I cried. Author was scrupulous in telling what was true and what made up; I would like to think it was all true. That poor man - and those exquisite paintings! I've seen some in various galleries; there is nothing like his painting. It is......more