Green Hour

Frederic Tuten

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Set in Paris and New York, The Green Hour tells the story of Dominique, a brilliant art historian who has recently recovered from a bout with cancer. The novel follows Dominique from her college years to the present, unfolding a moving love story in which Dominique is torn between her passion for the idealistic and seductive Rex, who periodically disappears from her life, and her feelings for Eric, a wealthy American businessman deeply in love with her. Woven into this romance is the equally gripping tale of Dominique's relationship with art and the cultural turmoils of our time. By portraying a character for whom love and idealism are lost, this novel hauntingly shows us the importance of pursuing both. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2002.

Book Details

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: Oct 1st, 2003
Pages: 268
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.28in - 5.52in - 0.68in - 0.54lb
EAN: 9780393325331
Categories: • Romance - General• Literary

About the Author

Tuten, Frederic: - Frederic Tuten is the author of Tintin in the New World, The Green Hour, and Self Portraits, among other fiction. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Distinguished Writing. He lives in New York City.

Praise for this book

[C]ourageous, adventurous, intelligent and highly original...moments of haunting lyrical power.--Citation for the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

An engaging love story, quirky, cosmopolitan, full of upliftings and downturnings...--Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove

A moving novel that explores the nature of love and the relationship between art and life.--Francine du Plessix Gray, author of At Home with the Marquis de Sade

[C]uts brightly into the dark night of our troubled times. Unforgettable.--Oscar Hijuelos, author of A Simple Habana Melody

Frederic Tuten is a valiant gifted writer whose work honors literature.--Susan Sontag

I felt moved and involved--and above all envious. I loved this novel and could not put it down.--Steve Martin, author of Shopgirl

[An] exceptional writer...elegant and always intelligent in his spiritual accounting.-- "Los Angeles Times Book Review"

Splendidly subversive....Tuten whittles away at the conflicting emotions separating us from our ideal selves and shows us how little of our destinies we control.-- "San Francisco Chronicle"