Fernanda Eberstadt WHEN THE SONS OF HEAVEN MEET THE DAUGHTERS OF THE EARTH Proof Copy
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Fernanda Eberstadt WHEN THE SONS OF HEAVEN MEET THE DAUGHTERS OF THE EARTH Proof Copy
A UK Uncorrected Bookproof copy of WHEN THE SONS OF HEAVEN MEET THE DAUGHTERS OF THE EARTH, by Fernanda Eberstadt and published by The Harvill Press in 1997. First published in the USA the same year.The book is in very good condition with no more than minor wear (bit of creasing on back cover, very small area of sticker removal wear on spine, partially obliterating the Harvill cat motiff). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
Dolly Gebler, patron of the arts, Midwestern heiress to a pharmaceutical fortune, raised amongst her father's Flemish Masters and abstract expressionists, dedicated to the idea that art can change the world.
Alfred, her husband, a poor boy from Brooklyn, feels he should have been a jazz musician, loves nightclubs and tequila and believes h, e has married a woman with no concept of companionship, for whom everything is appearances - black-tie galas and special viewings six nights a week, benefit and board meetings.
Together, with her money, they are the Aurora Foundation, based in New York's Lower East Side, with a mission to pick out a few artists of genius, bank them for life and give them enough rope to hang the world.
Into this world comes Isaac Hooker, 25 years old, Harvard-educated but with no direction to his life. After attending art classes at a men's shelter, he stumbles into a job at Aurora and becomes Alfred's Fresh-Air kid, and Dolly's genius for whom she wants to make everything possible...
This is a big, brilliant, ambitious novel which satirizes the high-flying New York Art world of the late 1980s.
404 pages
ISBN: 1 86046 401 7
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