Tuesday nights in 1980
By: Molly Prentiss
Edition: First Scout Press hardcover edition.
Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9781501121043
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Painters; Art critics; Art; Collectors and collecting; Fiction
Other titles: Tuesday nights in nineteen eighty
Description: Welcome to SoHo at the onset of the eighties: a gritty, not-yet-gentrified playground for artists and writers looking to make it in the big city. Among them: James Bennett, a synesthetic art critic for The New York Times whose unlikely condition enables him to describe art in profound, magical ways, and Raul Engales, an exiled Argentinian painter running from his past and the Dirty War that has enveloped his country. As the two men ascend in the downtown arts scene, dual tragedies strike, and each is faced with a loss that acutely affects his relationship to life and to art. It is not until they are inadvertently brought together by Lucy Olliason-- a small town beauty and Raul's muse-- and a young orphan boy sent mysteriously from Buenos Aires, that James and Raul are able to rediscover some semblance of what they've lost.