Carol Jameson

Adam and Leonora (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Adam Sinclair is a reclusive surrealist painter, in search of his muse and obsessed with his visions, who lives in a vast artist's compound in the Santa Cruz mountains. Leonora Bloom is an artist and scientist who isn't sure why she is so drawn to a man she's never met yet can't shake her obsession with him. After years of hiking the ridge above Adam's property, she finally knocks on his door. Inside Adam's house, enormous paintings of golden spirals, cosmic stars, and cobalt universes cover the walls, vibrating with energy and mysteryand though he is aloof, the chemistry between him and Leonora is immediate. When the younger woman catches a glimpse of an old black-and-white photograph of his deceased wife, Pauline, who could be her twin, she begins to understand why. Interwoven with Leonora's tale are the voices of modern-day Don Quixote Adam's muses: Pauline, a talented writer who lives in both 1940s New York City and Mexico; and Mimi Saucier, a sultry singer from 1930s Paris. The two women play off characters of the Surrealist movement including André Breton, Remedios Varo, and Wolfgang Paalen, creating worlds of dreamy enchantment. Filled with intrigue and tension, secrets and admissions, and the colorful imagery of a painter's mind, Adam and Leonora explores Leonora's quest to discover Adam's secret to the creative pulse of lifea journey into the surreal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781647426392
• Artikelnr.: 68327288

Autorenporträt

Carol Jameson is an educator, swimmer, and pianist. She created and coedited the online zine Hello Goodbye Apocalyse, a journal of pandemic writings and artwork, and is the author of The Kaiser Stories and It Builds in the Brain. Currently, she writes two blogs: Pool Purrs, a collection of swimming stories, and Walk with CJ, a collection of walking stories that began during the pandemic. She has an MFA in creative writing and literature from Mills College and teaches writing in San Francisco Bay Area colleges. She lives in Richmond, California, with her naughty orange tabby cat, Clara.