'Absorbing in its simplicity about bourgeois banality and the quest for expression' New York Times So Much Blue is a gorgeous novel about art, memory and self-deception from the author of Erasure, now an Oscar-nominated film. Kevin Pace is working on a painting that he won't 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 twenty-one feet and three inches, covered entirely in shades of blue. It may be his masterpiece or it may not; he ...
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'Absorbing in its simplicity about bourgeois banality and the quest for expression' New York Times So Much Blue is a gorgeous novel about art, memory and self-deception from the author of Erasure, now an Oscar-nominated film. Kevin Pace is working on a painting that he won't 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 twenty-one feet and three inches, covered entirely in shades of blue. It may be his masterpiece or it may not; he doesn't 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's drug-dealing brother. So Much Blue is a brilliant examination of how the past collides with present, and the secrets we keep from even ourselves. Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature. 'So Much Blue is such a perfectly structured novel . . . A generous, thrilling book by a man who might well be America's most under-recognized literary master' NPR
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Only 2 out of 6 of my book club members could finish the book. I was one of them. There were some excellent passages here and there, but I had very limited interest in hearing about a married man with children who has no complaints about his wife, who embarks on a dalliance with a younger, adoring, beautiful woman while in Paris, no less. The book had a long foray into a flashback of a visit to a country during a civil war that was way too long and seemed irrelevant although it turned out to be the crux of the story.
