Van Gogh's Bad Cafe

By: Frederic Tuten, Eric Fischl (Illustrator)

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Hardcover | 1 January 1997

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163 Pages

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18 x 13.6 x 1.6

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Vincent van Gogh created his life's work out of a vortex of passion and delirium so intense his paintings seem to burst off the canvas. Now Frederic Tuten, the highly acclaimed author of Tintin in the New World, has imagined the personification of van Gogh's fervor and madness: Ursula, one of the most beguiling creations in recent literature. A morphine-addicted, nineteen-year-old photographer, Ursula is van Gogh's lover and tormentor. But she is lost to him, and he to her, when she steps through a crack in the wall of the Bad Cafe and finds herself in a strange world - New York City at the end of the twentieth century. Van Gogh's Bad Cafe is a fantastical romance set in two different eras. It is a meditation on love and longing; on van Gogh's psyche and his work; on addiction (to passion, drugs, art); on the spirit of the nineteenth versus the twentieth century.

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This is the story of Ursula, 19 years old, morphine-addicted, bisexual and caught between two worlds: the rural French village in which she lives out a bohemian rhapsody with tortured artist Vincent Van Gogh and modern-day New York, into which she falls after slipping through a fissure in time. Mysterious, free-spirited and eager for experience, Ursula quickly adjusts to modern life, art and drugs in the East Village, metamorphosing into a militant feminist with a crew-cut and nose-ring before slipping back through time to be reunited with her lover at the point of his suicide. Clever, literate and sensual, the novel can be read as an imaginative love story, a comment on the creeping decadence of two fin-de-siecle societies or as a brave attempt to personify the passion and originality of Van Gogh's paintings. (Kirkus UK)

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