Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss
A "thrilling, vibrant debut" (Marie Claire) that follows a critic, an artist, and a desirous, determined young woman as they find their way--and ultimately collide--amid the ever-evolving New York City art scene of the 1980s.Welcome to SoHo at the onset of the eighties: a gritty, not-yet-gentrified playground for artists and writers looking to make it in the big city. Among them: James Bennett, a synesthetic art critic for The New York Times whose unlikely condition enables him to describe art in profound, magical ways, and Raul Engales, an exiled Argentinian painter running from his past and the Dirty War that has enveloped his country.
As the two men ascend in the downtown arts scene, dual tragedies strike, and each is faced with a loss that acutely affects his relationship to life and to art. It is not until they are inadvertently brought together by Lucy Olliason--a small town beauty and Raul's muse--and a young orphan boy sent mysteriously from Buenos Aires, that James and Raul are able to rediscover some semblance of what they've lost.
"Innovative to the max" (Bustle) and reminiscent as Jennifer Egan's A Visit From The Goon Squad and as sweeping as Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings, Tuesday Nights in 1980 boldly renders a complex moment when the meaning and nature of art is being all but upended, and New York City as a whole is reinventing itself. In "vivid and sensitive" (Vulture) prose that is as powerful as it is playful, Molly Prentiss deftly explores the need for beauty, community, creation, and love in an ever-changing urban landscape.
MOLLY PRENTISS received her MFA in Creative Writing from California College of Arts. She was a Writer in Residence at Workspace at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and at the Blue Mountain Center, and was chosen as an Emerging Writer Fellow by the Aspen Writers Foundation. Her stories and essays can be found in Fourteen Hills, Hobart, HTML Giant, Wilder Quarterly and the Aesthete among others. She works as a fashion writer and lives in Brooklyn.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781501121050 |
| ISBN 10 | 1501121057 |
| Title | Tuesday Nights in 1980 |
| Author | Molly Prentiss |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Gallery/Scout Press |
| Year published | 2017-05-02 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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