| The Petting Zoo Revised Edition Contributor(s): Carroll, Jim (Author), Smith, Patti (Preface by) |
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ISBN: 0143120093 ISBN-13: 9780143120094 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Biographical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.60 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A moving, vividly rendered novel from the author of The Basketball Diaries Suffused with Jim Carroll's humor and sharp wit, his delicate yet hallucinatory imagery, and his cool, sophisticated, streetsmart voice, The Petting Zoo is a frank, haunting examination of one artist's personal and spiritual quest. Billy Wolfram, an enigmatic thirty-eight- year-old star of the late -1980s New York art scene, views a show of Vel zquez paintings and is so humbled by their spiritual power that he suffers an emotional breakdown and retreats to his Chelsea loft. In seclusion, he recalls the most emblematic moments and figures of his childhood and early career as he searches to recover the spark of inspiration in his own work and life. |