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by Irving Stone (Author)
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  • Paperback: 430 pages
  • Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (1 Feb 1990)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099416425
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099416425
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11.1 x 2.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 106,257 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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No artist has been more ruthlessly driven by his creative urge, nor more isolated by it from most ordinary sources of human happiness, than Vincent Van Gogh. A painter of genius, his life was an incessant struggle against poverty, discouragement, madness and despair. Lust for Life skilfully captures the exciting atmosphere of the Paris of the Post-Impressionists and reconstructs with great insight the development of Van Gogh's art. The painter is brought to life not only as an artist but as a personality and this account of his violent, vivid and tormented life is a novel of rare compassion and vitality.


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The classic fictional biography of Vincent Van Gogh. No artist was ever more ruthlessly driven by his creative urge, nor more isolated by it from most ordinary sources of human happiness, than Van Gogh. A painter of genius, his life was an incessant struggle against poverty, discouragement, madness and despair.
Lust for Life skilfully captures the exciting atmosphere of the Paris of the Post-Impressionists and reconstructs with great insight the development of Van Gogh's art. The painter is brought to life not only as an artist but as a personality and this account of his violent, vivid and tormented life is a novel of rare compassion and vitality.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Stone's Most Successful Bio, 1 Dec 2002
By Bruce Kendall "BEK" (Southern Pines, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lust for Life (Paperback)
Irving Stone is not a "great" biographer. He doesn't provide copious bibliographic details or even pretend particularly to serious scholarship. But he does do his research. What Stone is is a very good storyteller. And the stories he tells, whether about Jack London, Heinrich Schleimann, Michelangelo or Freud, have always entertained and (yes) enriched me.

Van Gogh's biography, and it's companion-piece, Dear Theo, are particularly moving accounts of that great, tragic painter. I doubt if any artist ever despaired as deeply or more profoundly than Vincent. Stone captures the pathos of Van Gogh's few moments of exhiliration, followed always by days of dissilusionment and depression. Van Gogh was the saint and prototype of all struggling artists. The penury and neglect he suffered through shouldn't have to be endured by the mangiest stray animal.

It's one of God's great ironies (Faulkner's cosmic jester?) that Van Gogh's works are bought by Japanese investors and museum collections for umptold millions, whereas their creator, having climbed down to the last rung of despair, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

If you enjoy this book as much as I did, read Dear Theo. It reveals the extraordinarly tender love the two Van Gogh brothers had for each other. Theo was basically Vincent's sole means of support during the artists's latter years. Unfortunately, Theo was living in boderline poverty himself, had a family, and thus couldn't give much to Vincent save for a little bit of money and a great deal of moral encouragement.

Both of these books are infinitely sad, yet the redeeming aspect is that Vincent didn't live his life in vain, as he thought, and that the body of work which has survived ( many paintings were painted over - canvas was a luxury) is a testament to his genius.

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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The life & work of Van Gogh, 9 Jul 2001
By Scott C. White "music_dude88" (Deeeeetroit) - See all my reviews
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This is a good summary of the life on Vincent Van Gogh. I read this book to get some background for an upcoming vist to the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, and it didn't disapoint. I would say that 90% of the things that happen in the book are true, the other 10% is made up of likely to occur dialog between Van Gogh and the other characters. Irving Stone did a great job of capturing the emotions of Vincent as he slowly progressed to madness. Also, as I hoped, the story is very focused in the art and how it developed throughout his life. If you are a Van Gogh fan or looking for a good introduction to his life and work, then this book is great. I can see how it would be boring for the person with no motivation to read it.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars It is autibiogrpahy of Vincent van gogh., 1 Aug 2000
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It is a very beautiful book and how the writer has narrated the incidents are amazing beautiful. The realtionship between van gogh and his brother is brought out beautifully in this book. I have read 3 times this book and it is truely inspirational. Infact this book lead me to read all books of Irving stone. Some of which i have read more than 2 times.
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