I loved Kate Christensen's The Great Man, a graceful, smart and character-driven novel set in motion by the death of a renowned artist. The characters are the great man's widow and autistic son, his paramour (and mother of his two daughters), his sister (and fellow stellar artist), and others whose lifelong orbits around the titular character begin to decay rapidly away from the weaker gravity of his memory/5(85). · The Great Man. “Nimble, witty and discerning, Kate Christensen is single-handedly reinvigorating the comedy of manners with her smart and disemboweling novels of misanthropes, cultural and aesthetic divides, private angst, social ambition and appetites run amok.”. . 6 rows · · KATE CHRISTENSEN is the author of six previous novels, most recently The Astral. The Great Man Edition description: Reprint.
The Great Man. by Kate Christensen. Share your thoughts Complete your review. Tell readers what you thought by rating and reviewing this book. Rate it * You Rated it * 0. 1 Star - I hated it 2 Stars - I didn't like it 3 Stars - It was OK 4 Stars - I liked it 5 Stars - I loved it. The Great Man: A Novel is a novel by American author Kate Christensen. It won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, beating nearly other submissions and earning Christensen the $15, top prize.[1] The story takes place five years after the death, at 78, of celebrated painter Oscar Feldman, the "great man" of the title. A joyful art-world romp from Christensen (The Epicure's Lament, , etc.) that allows aging women to come across as sexy. Pub Date: Aug. 14th, ISBN:
I loved Kate Christensen's The Great Man, a graceful, smart and character-driven novel set in motion by the death of a renowned artist. The characters are the great man's widow and autistic son, his paramour (and mother of his two daughters), his sister (and fellow stellar artist), and others whose lifelong orbits around the titular character begin to decay rapidly away from the weaker gravity of his memory. KATE CHRISTENSEN is the author of six previous novels, most recently The Astral. The Great Man. The Great Man by Kate Christensen. Publication Date: Aug; Hardcover: pages; Publisher: Doubleday; ISBN ; ISBN
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