Radiant Days
by Elizabeth Hand
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81%
Critic Reviews: 8
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Reader Ratings: 9
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Synopsis
She is a painter. He is a poet. Their art bridges time.It is 1978. Merle is in her first year at the Corcoran School of Art, catapulted from her impoverished Appalachian upbringing into a sophisticated, dissipated art scene. It is also 1870. The teenage poet Arthur Rimbaud is on the verge of breaking through to the images and voice that will make his name. The meshed power of words and art thins the boundaries between the present and the past—and allows these... more
About Elizabeth Hand
- All Critics: 8
- Positive: 7
- Negative: 1
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Kirkus Reviews | 15 Feb 2012
An impressive blend of biography and magical realism.
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Publishers Weekly | 20 Feb 2012
Hand’s descriptions of art and poetry as they are being made are breathtaking...and her troubled, beautifully drawn characters make the heart ache.
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The Literary Gothamite | 21 May 2012
...the supporting characters are more caricature than flesh and blood, and do a poor job of supporting the main characters whose fleshing out, as it were, is unstable to begin with.
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Chasing Ray | 9 Feb 2012
Her characters are so vividly created and their emotions so raw - they will appeal to anyone who appreciates true emotional honesty.
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Elizabeth Hand’s vibrant new novel, Radiant Days, addresses these questions
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Boston.com | 29 Apr 2012
it’s a book that will appeal to mature readers, aspiring writers, artists, actors, dancers, or really any teen who would appreciate the story of artistic self-actualization
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School Library Journal | 21 May 2012
It is an amazing, awesome, scarily brilliant book.
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