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Tiepolo Blue - 'The best novel I have read for ages' Stephen Fry (Paperback)
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Tiepolo Blue - 'The best novel I have read for ages' Stephen Fry (Paperback)
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'The best novel I have read for ages. My heart was constantly in my
throat as I read . . . There is so much to enjoy, to contemplate,
to wonder at, and to be lost in' Stephen Fry 'Meticulous and
atmospheric . . . delicious unease and pervasive threat give this
assured first novel great singularity and a kind of gothic edge'
Michael Donkor, Guardian Cambridge, 1994. Professor Don Lamb is a
revered art historian at the height of his powers, consumed by the
book he is writing about the skies of the Venetian master Tiepolo.
However, his academic brilliance belies a deep inexperience of life
and love. When an explosive piece of contemporary art is installed
on the lawn of his college, it sets in motion Don's abrupt
departure from Cambridge to take up a role at a south London
museum. There he befriends Ben, a young artist who draws him into
the anarchic 1990s British art scene and the nightlife of Soho.
Over the course of one long, hot summer, Don glimpses a liberating
new existence. But his epiphany is also a moment of self-reckoning,
as his oldest friendship - and his own unexamined past - are
revealed to him in a devastating new light. As Don's life unravels,
he suffers a fall from grace that that shatters his world into
pieces. 'A novel that combines formal elegance with gripping
storytelling . . . wildly enjoyable' Financial Times 'Tiepolo Blue
really has blown me away . . . The last debut novel I read that had
this much talent buzzing around inside it was Alan Hollinghurst's
The Swimming-Pool Library.' Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
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