A vibrantly illustrated chain of entanglements (romantic and otherwise) between some of our best-loved writers and artists of the twentieth century--fascinating; scandalous; and surprising. Poet Robert Lowell died of a heart attack; clutching a portrait of his lover; Caroline Blackwood; painted by her ex-husband; Lucian Freud. Lowell was on his way to see his own ex-wife; Elizabeth Hardwick; who was a longtime friend of Mary McCarthy. McCarthy left the father of her child to marry Edmund Wilson; who had encouraged her writing; and had also brought critical attention to the fiction of Anaiuml;s Nin . . . whom he later bedded. And so it goes; the long chain of love; affections; and artistic influences among writers; musicians; and artists that weaves its way through the The Art of the Affair--from Frida Kahlo to Colette to Hemingway to Dali; from Coco Chanel to Stravinsky to Miles Davis to Orson Welles.Scrupulously researched but playfully prurient; cleverly designed and colorfully illustrated; its the perfect gift for your literary lover--and the perfect read for any good-natured gossip-monger.
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