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Le côté gauche de la plage

""Je l'ai rencontré il y a seize ou dix-sept ans, à une époque où la plage était plus peuplée qu'aujourd'hui. Ce n'étaie pas une plage méditerranéenne, pas une boîte de sardines les petits groupes de corps allongés au soleil n'étaient pw, proches les uns des autres. De femme seule, il n'y avait que moi. Je ne connaissais personne. J'arrivais, me baignai: nue, me rhabillais, lisais au soleil, repartais sans parler personne. Il était seul, lui aussi. ""--Page 4 of cover.

Life of David Hockney : a novel

"With clear, vivid prose, this meticulously researched novel draws an intimate, moving portrait of the most famous living English painter. Born in 1937 in a small town in the north of England, David Hockney had to fight to become an artist. After leaving his home in Bradford for the Royal College of Art in London, his career flourished, but he continued to struggle with a sense of not belonging, because of his homosexuality, which had yet to be decriminalized, and his inclination for a figurative style of art not sufficiently "contemporary" to be valued. Trips to New York and California--where he would live for many years and paint his iconic swimming pools--introduced him to new scenes and new loves, beginning a journey that would take him through the fraught years of the AIDS epidemic. A compelling hybrid of novel and biography, Life of David Hockney offers an accessible overview of the painter who shook the world of art with a vitality and freedom that neither heartbreak nor illness nor loss could corrode"--

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