To view prices and purchase online, please login or create an account now.



From Sea to Stormy Sea: 17 Stories Inspired by Great American Paintings

Hardback

Main Details

Title From Sea to Stormy Sea: 17 Stories Inspired by Great American Paintings
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Lawrence Block
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:272
Dimensions(mm): Height 236,Width 160
Category/GenreAnthologies
Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Crime and mystery
Short stories
ISBN/Barcode 9781643130828
ClassificationsDewey:813.0108357
Audience
General
Illustrations Illustrated with 17 color plates, one for each story

Publishing Details

Publisher Pegasus Books
Imprint Pegasus Books
Publication Date 10 December 2019
Publication Country United States

Description

In the third installment of his acclaimed illustrated anthology series, master of crime fiction Lawrence Block has gathered together the best talent from popular fiction to produce an anthology of short stories based on masterpieces of American art. Seventeen stories by seventeen brilliant writers, inspired by seventeen paintings. That was the formula for Lawrence Block's two ground-breaking anthologies, In Sunlight or in Shadow and Alive in Shape and Color, and it's on glorious display here once again in From Sea to Stormy Sea. This time the paintings are exclusively the work of American artists, and the roster includes Harvey Dunn, John Steuart Curry, Reginald Marsh, Thomas Hart Benton, Helen Frankenthaler, Winslow Homer, Rockwell Kent, Grant Wood, Childe Hassam and Andy Warhol. Among the star-studded lineup of writers you'll find Jerome Charyn, Jane Hamilton, Christa Faust, John Sandford, Sara Paretsky, Walter Mosley, Charles Ardai, Barry Malzberg, and Janice Eidus. It's an outstanding collection, with widely divergent stories united by theme and culture, and-no surprise-beautifully illustrated with full-color reproductions of the seventeen paintings.

Author Biography

Lawrence Block has been writing award-winning mystery and suspense fiction for half a century. His newest book is The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes. His other recent novels include The Burglar Who Counted The Spoons, Hit Me, and A Drop Of The Hard Stuff, featuring Matthew Scudder. He's well known for his books for writers, including the classic Telling Lies For Fun & Profit and Write For Your Life, and he has recently published The Crime of Our Lives, a collection of his writings about the mystery genre and its practitioners.

Reviews

"A remarkable gallery show. For this imagination-firing anthology, Lawrence Block asked writers to use a celebrated American painting as a launchpad for a short story." * Shelf Awareness * "Since the writers he's chosen tend to specialize in crime and genre fiction, the stories are chock-full of loners, losers and cynics who get to say snappy lines." * The Associated Press *