Radiant Days

Name: Radiant Days
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Elizabeth Hand
ISBN: 9781455129638

Author: Elizabeth Hand

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 8 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 04/12/2012

Categories: Children's Fiction, Fantasy Stories

Synopsis

She is a painter. He is a poet. Their art bridges time. It is 1978. Merle is in her first year at the Corcoran School of Art, catapulted from her impoverished Appalachian upbringing into a sophisticated, dissipated art scene. It is also 1870. The teenage poet Arthur Rimbaud is on the verge of breaking through to the images and voice that will make his name. The meshed power of words and art thins the boundaries between the present and the pastand allows these two troubled, brilliant artists to enter each others worlds. Radiant Daysis a peerless follow-up to Elizabeth Hands unforgettable, multiple-starredIllyria.

About Elizabeth Hand

Elizabeth Hand is the author of more than nineteen cross-genre novels and collections of short fiction. Her work has received the Shirley Jackson Award three times, the World Fantasy Award four times, and the Nebula Award twice, as well as the James M. Tiptree Jr. and Mythopoeic Society awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Richard on January 14, 2013

GENESIS OF GENIUS Radiant Days by Elizabeth Hand A Review by Richard Cambridge 1 July 2012 Where do paintings come from? How do poems get made? Elizabeth Hand’s excavation of the creative process in two precocious teenage artists, painter Merle Tappitt of 1970s Washington, D.C., and poet Arthur Rimbau......more

Goodreads review by M on July 17, 2012

Radiant Days begins in 1978 following Merle Tappitt, fled from an abusive redneck childhood for the only slightly greater comfort of art school. She explores her own artistic impulses and means, and makes a few friends among fellow students, as well as one female teacher who takes a special personal......more

Goodreads review by Anna on November 15, 2011

This one started out slow, and it was difficult to get into. In the end, though, it was worth the wait. There's a touch of magic to bring it all together, but the rest of the world is normal. The characters are incredible. Basically, the book woke up an artistic part of me I had kind of forgotten ab......more