My Young Life
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781501194450
Subjects: Authors, american; Authors, biography; Italian americans
Description: "Born in the Bronx to a Sicilian mother and Southern father, Frederic Tuten always dreamed of being an artist. Determined to trade his neighborhood streets for the romantic avenues of Paris, he learned to paint and draw, falling in love with the process of putting a brush to canvas, and the feeling it gave him. At fifteen, he decided to leave high school and pursue the bohemian life he'd read about in books, a life of salons and cafes and "worldly women" from whom he could learn and grow. But, before he could, he would receive an extraordinary education, right in his own backyard"--