Forty-one False Starts

Author: Janet Malcolm
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0374157693

Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers

A deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photographers, writers, and critics

Janet Malcolm's In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer, as well as her books about Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein, are canonical in the realm of nonfiction-as is the title essay of this collection, with its forty-one "false starts," or serial attempts to capture the essence of the painter David Salle, which becomes a dazzling portrait of an artist. Get Forty-one False Starts literature books for free.
I> Malcolm is "among the most intellectually provocative of authors," writes David Lehman in The Boston Globe, "able to turn epiphanies of perception into explosions of insight."

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