The Prize, by Jill Bialosky
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What do we prize most? Are integrity and ambition mutually exclusive, as we seek a place in the world? How do we ultimately value a piece of artor a life? These are the questions at the core of the evocative new novel by bestselling author Jill Bialosky.Edward Darby has everything a man could hope for: meaningful work, a loving wife, and a beloved daughter. With a rising career as a partner at an esteemed gallery, he strives not to let ambition, money, power, and his dark past corrode the sanctuary of his domestic and private life. Influenced by his father, a brilliant Romantics scholar, Edward has always been more of a purist than an opportunist. But when a celebrated artist controlled by her insecurities betrays himand another very different artist awakens his heart and stirs up secrets from his pastEdward will find himself unmoored from his marriage, his work, and the memory of his beloved father. And when the finalists of an important prize are announced, creating desperate maneuvering among artists seeking validation, Edward soon learns that betrayal comes in many forms, and he may be hurtling toward an act that challenges his own notions about what comprises a life worth living.A compelling odyssey of a man unhinged by his ideals, The Prize is also an unflinching portrait of a marriage struggling against the corroding tide of time and the proximity to the treacherous fault line between art and money.
The Prize, by Jill Bialosky- Published on: 2015-11-02
- Original language: English
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Review ''[A] luminous behind-the-scenes view of the art world.... One expects a poet's prose to soar in fiction, and the author does not disappoint, crafting her own work of art with her evocative, fresh descriptions and her careful observations of how artists transform inspiration into their work.'' --Publishers Weekly ''Bialosky...articulates with grace the crass and the sublime as she explores questions of character, art, obsession, ambition, lies, loneliness, and love. This fluently sophisticated and exquisitely pleasurable novel is radiant with precise and sensuous descriptions and intricately laced with discerning and affecting insights into the passion and business of art and the meaning and struggles of marriage.'' --Booklist Starred Review ''The Prize is a subtle, incisive, and erotically charged exploration of the dark crossroad where art, money, and obsession converge. Jill Bialosky has written a true and dangerous novel.'' --John Banville, author of The Sea “''Jill Bialosky brings a poet's ear for language to this moving, knowing meditation on marriage and art and the emotional costs of a life spent in pursuit of even the worthiest ideals.'' --Jonathan Dee, author of The Privileges, Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize ''“In The Prize, Jill Bialosky has written an erotically charged story about the contemporary art world suggestive of a Roman a clef, but far more sponsored by a sublime and sympathetic narrative imagination and boldness. The character of Agnes —a brilliant artist— is a deliciously maddening figure who makes Machiavellian strategies of ambition seem like child's play. Impressively, many of Bialosky's people can't seem to stop apprenticing themselves to their worst instincts (to quote Chekhov) and how they reconfigure their lives to fit their delusions of grandeur makes for hypnotic betrayals. The Prize is vividly modern, and in the tensions offered between art and life, timeless. Yet finally, Bialosky's novel is a kind of old-fashioned love story, with an ending whose bittersweetness is powerfully earned.'' --—Howard Norman, author of The Bird Artist ''“Jill Bialosky has written a haunting novel about the gulf between art and the art world – the place where deals are made and souls are lost – but more, about the cost of our choices, our failures, and our silences. Wintry, subtle, unnerving and mysterious in its impact, this book drew me in deeply and really got to me.'' --Joan Wickersham, author of The News from Spain and The Suicide Index, a Finalist for the National Book Award ''“A compulsively readable novel about art: both that on the canvas, and that of finding one's home in another.'' --—Elizabeth Berg, author of Open House ''Renowned poet Jill Bialosky has once again turned her penetrating eye to fiction and lucky for us, because here she delves deeply into nothing less then the complexities of art and desire, and their often dangerous interaction with commerce. At its heart, her wonderful new work, The Prize, is tense, romantic, and timely; a novel about passion and betrayal.'' --Helen Schulman, author of This Beautiful Life
About the Author JILL BIALOSKY is the author of the acclaimed novel House Under Snow and two collections of poetry, The End of Desire and Subterranean. Her poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker and O, The Oprah Magazine. She is an editor at W. W. Norton & Company and lives in New York City.Tom Taylorson is a Chicago-based actor with over a decade of stage experience ranging from outdoor and black-box theaters to the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. In that time he also built a voice-over career. He now primarily works as a voice actor and can be heard in a multitude of national radio and television commercials, on various websites, and in video games. Tom is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia College Chicago, teaching voice-over for interactive media.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful. Passion and betrayal beautifully portrayed By Marjorie Cunningham This is a slow, leisurely book with beautiful poetic touches throughout. It’s quite an in-depth look into the art world and how passion for creating art and the business end of selling it often clash. I felt as though I was walking next to these characters and living their days alongside of them as their lives are written so realistically.The main character, Edward, is a partner in an art gallery. He strives to do all he can to help an artist achieve what they want from their art. He puts his heart and soul into his work, often to the detriment of his marriage. His star artist, Agnes, is often insecure and difficult to deal with and has a true artist’s passionate temperament. Their relationship is a fascinating one and I truly enjoyed the hours spent watching how their roles play out.Also explored in this book is the marriage of Edward and his wife, Holly. Edward has kept something vitally important from his past from Holly. That secret, along with the betrayal that develops at the art gallery, set Edward on an unexpected path as his world begins to unravel. Just as the writing of his life as an artist’s representative is written realistically and beautifully, so are his marriage’s struggles.I knew I would love this book when I read that the author is a poet. What more could you ask for then an author with the heart of a poet writing about the passionate and turbulent art world? The book never disappointed. Now that I have a taste of this author’s work, I’ll be looking for her other books, especially her memoir about her sister’s suicide.This book was given to me by the publisher through Edelweiss in return for an honest review.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Fascinating look at the high-end art world and a marriage in turmoil By Christine Parkhurst This novel is beautifully written. It drew me in until finally I had to read it during every spare moment until I finished it. It's a convincing portrait of a man who has lost his way in middle age. He makes bad choice after bad choice, but we care about him because at heart, he's a good person with an unfortunate past and a conflicted present. He's an art dealer who deeply loves art, but has to play the political games of the high-end art world. This world is fascinating, and the book asks questions about how we decide who's hot, who's not, and who gets to decide that also exist in the literary world and in other areas as well. He loves his wife, but another woman has him in thrall, as he thinks, and he can't overcome his obsession. She is no belle dame sans merci- she too is a likable character who has very mixed feelings about what she's doing. His wife is patient, lovable, puzzled, no fool, and his teenage daughter is tuned in and worried. Will he ruin his life beyond repair, or turn things around in time to save himself? By the end of the novel I was rooting for him so much that I had to stay up late and finish the book in one go.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Worthy Drop in an Ocean of Books By Carol Miller It's rare to find a good plot, really well written, with language that is obviously clear, cultivated, refined, elegant and well structured. Except for a half dozen cases, so common, of words misplaced in a sentence and one redundency ("a moment in time"), the total is flawless, with good characters well described. The author, like the equally fluent and thoroughly resourceful Abraham Verghese, attended Ohio State University, and they are probably both products of what would appear to be a first-rate writing class. Furthermore, myself an artist who briefly braved the New York art scene, I can thoroughly relate to the story line and appreciate the subtleties. Here we have galleries, dealers, artists, collectors, the marketplace, but we also have marriage, the suburbs and commuters, academics, the Romantic poets, psychological quirks. impulse buying at Saks and personal histories with twists. I stumbled on the book while cruising the Kindle bookstore and bought it on a whim, pure intuition. I was not only gratified. I was ecstatic. How do you pick a book, anyway? And if you've written one, how do you get it out there? How do you select a worthy drop from an ocean of titles?
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