Confessions of St. Augustine

Hundreds of full color paintings and thousands of black and white drawings! A picaresque (as well as picturesque) novel in the tradition of Catcher in the Rye, Portnoy's Complaint, and Catch-22, but with one more catch. The narrator is the artist. Set against the background of drawings and paintings as diverse as Daumier and Degas, Hopper and Homer, the story's woven together in such a way it can be only be described as a unique hybrid--a literary novel and an art book that has no rival in the history of the novel! Colorful. Original. Outrageous!--The voice of a Holden Caulfield, Alexander Portnoy, Robin Williams, Jack Nicholson AND YES--EVEN A SAMUEL L.JACKSON! (for starters) but the yin and yang of modern man in all of his bipolar glory--wavering between Augustine and Auschwitz, Sartre and certainty--heaven or hell...--but desperately searching for meaning with little more than his words and his art as a means to express it. A wild, manic, full-throttle ride through our subconscious dreamscapes. From New York to LA, from Miami to the deserts of Arizona, The Confessions of St. Augustine takes the reader on a roller coaster ride of emotions, places, and changes--from the portrait of the artist as a young man to his final apocalyptic vision of America, the world and ultimately life itself. The Confessions of St. Augustine is a trilogy (The Mendicant, The Militant, and The Missionary) chronicling the spiritual journey of an artist in the latter half of the 20th century to the present, narrated and illustrated by the artist himself. Sometimes spokesman, sometimes dreamer, sometimes Walter Mitty with a paint brush, Augustine Schmitt paints an America we've all believed in at one time or another. But whether it's really just kitsch, camp, or commercialism, however, is another story. Because running counterpoint to this paean to the America of our youth is the voice of a Holden Caulfield grown up into an Alexander Portnoy debunking the very America he's now painting. Masking his talent with a "wise guy" façade, he finds more justification creating chaos out of "order" than order out of chaos. Thus the title of the first section of the first novel: "Portrait of an American Wiseguy."
ASIN: 0985639008
VSKU: BVV.0985639008.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:James F. Mueller|None
Binding: Paperback
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Condition Notes: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.