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Hermann, Nellie, 1978-
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Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890 -- Fiction.
Artists -- Belgium -- Fiction.
Borinage (Belgium) -- Fiction.
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Hermann, Nellie, 1978-
Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890 -- Fiction.
Artists -- Belgium -- Fiction.
Borinage (Belgium) -- Fiction.
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The
season
of
migration
: A
novel
/ Nellie Hermann.
by
Hermann, Nellie, 1978-
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2015.
Call #:
FICTION HER
Subjects
Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890 -- Fiction.
Artists -- Belgium -- Fiction.
Borinage (Belgium) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780374255473
0374255474
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
244 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
"A
novel
"--Jacket.
Summary:
The lyrically told story of one of the world's greatest artists finding his true calling. Though Vincent van Gogh is one of the most popular painters of all time, we know very little about a ten-month period in the painter's youth when he and his brother, Theo, broke off all contact. In the
season
of
migration
, Nellie Hermann conjures this period in a profoundly imaginative, original, and heartbreaking vision of Van Gogh's early years, before he became the artist we know today. In December 1878, Vincent van Gogh arrives in the coal-mining village of Petit Wasmes in the Borinage region of Belgium, a blasted and hopeless landscape of hovels and slag heaps and mining machinery. Not yet the artist he is destined to become, Vincent arrives as an ersatz preacher, barely sanctioned by church authorities but ordained in his own mind and heart by a desperate and mistaken spiritual vocation. But what Vincent experiences in the Borinage will change him. Coming to preach a useless gospel he thought he knew and believed, he learns about love, suffering, and beauty, ultimately coming to see the world anew and finding the divine not in religion but in our fallen human world. In startlingly beautiful and powerful language, Hermann transforms our understanding of Van Gogh and the redemptive power of art.
Genre:
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
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