&lsquoAbsorbing in its simplicity about bourgeois banality and the quest for expression&rsquo New York TimesSo Much Blue is a gorgeous novel about art, memory and selfdeception from the author of Erasure, now an Oscarnominated film.Kevin Pace is working on a painting that he won&#39t allow anyone to see not his children not his best friend, Richard not even his wife, Linda. The painting is a canvas of twelve feet by twentyone feet and three inches, covered entirely in shades of blue. It may be his masterpiece or it may not he doesn&#39t know, nor does he particularly care.What Kevin does care about are the events of the past the affair he had with a young artist in Paris ten years ago and, further back, his journey to an El Salvador on the brink of war to retrieve Richard&rsquos drugdealing brother. So Much Blue is a brilliant examination of how the past collides with present, and the secrets we keep from even ourselves.&#39So Much Blue is such a perfectly structured novel . . . A generous, thrilling book by a man who might well be America&#39s most underrecognized literary master&#39 NPRPart of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.Read Percival&#39s Pulitzer Prizewinning novel James in paperback now.

Binding: Paperback;240 pages; Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Int Ltd - MDL; Classification: AFC; Weight: 312 g; Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 15

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