I’m not really sure what rock I’ve been hiding under to have avoided Alison Lurie's books for so many years of my reading life, but I’m glad she’s come to me now . Lurie, who died last year, won the Pulitzer for her 1984 novel“one of the most entertaining novels I’ve read in a long time” upon its release.
Same, Edmund! In it, art historian Polly Alter falls headlong into an obsession with the deceased titular painter, Lorin Jones, while writing her biography, and into all kinds of entanglements with members of Lorin’s circle, from collectors to family members to estranged lovers. Each presents a different version of the Lorin Polly feelsknows best of all—and continuously complicates her desire to see Lorin as a blameless, pristine artist, taken advantage of by a train of dastardly men.
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