A gem among novels about vincent Van Gogh. But it’s also about love – and how it alters over time.

Let Me Tell You About A Man I Knew is a beautiful novel about the repercussions of longing, of loneliness and of passion for life. She will find that the painter will change all their lives. So ignoring her husband’s wishes, the dangers and despite the word mad, Jeanne climbs over the hospital wall. But this man – paint-smelling, dirty, troubled and intense – is, she thinks, worth talking to. Jeanne knows the rules she knows not to approach the patients at Saint-Paul. From her small white cottage, Jeanne Trabuc watches him – how he sets his easel amongst the trees, the irises and the fields of wheat, and paints in the heat of the day. Tales of the new arrival – his savagery, his paintings, his copper-red hair – are quick to find the warden’s wife. For years, the fragile have come here and lived quietly, found rest behind the shutters and high, sun-baked walls. An old monastery, it sits at the foot of Les Alpilles mountains amongst wheat fields, herbs and olive groves.

The hospital of Saint-Paul-de Mausole is home to the mentally ill. No other novel of a great man’s life has so fascinated the American public for generations.Let Me Tell You About A Man I Knew – Susan FletcherĪ much-loved book among novels about vincent Van Gogh. Finally, it shows us Van Gogh driven mad, tragic, and triumphant at once. The novel takes us from his desperate days in a coal mine in southern Belgium to his dazzling years in the south of France, where he knew the most brilliant artists (and the most depraved whores). Here is his tempestuous story: his dramatic life, his fevered loves for both the highest-born women and the lowest prostitutes, and his paintings-for which he was damned before being proclaimed a genius.

The most famous of all of Stone’s novels, it is the story of Vincent Van Gogh-brilliant painter, passionate lover, and alleged madman. Since its initial publication in 1934, Irving Stone’s Lust for Life has been a critical success, a multimillion-copy bestseller, and the basis for an Academy Award-winning movie. The classic, bestselling biographical novel of Vincent Van Gogh

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