The Art of Youth is a moving inquiry into the nature of artistic prodigies who did their major work at an early age. Renowned novelist Nicholas Delbanco gives us a triptych of indelible portraits: the American writer Stephen Crane (immortalized by The Red Badge of Courage); British artist Dora Carrington (called "the most neglected serious painter of her time"); and the legendary composer George Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue, Porgy and Bess).
All three lived colorful, productive lives before dying early, at an average age of thirty-five. In this learned and elegant book, Delbanco discovers what it is we mourn in authors who pass away so young, and muses on his own life-one marked by both early success and longevity.
| ISBN: | 9781477800966 |
| Publication date: | 21st November 2017 |
| Author: | Nicholas Delbanco |
| Publisher: | Amazon Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 232 pages |
| Genres: |
Musicians, singers, bands and groups |