Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Carroll, Jim; Smith, Patti |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Date: | 10/25/2011 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
A moving, vividly rendered novel from the author of TheBasketball Diaries
Suffused with Jim Carroll’s humor and sharp wit, his delicate yethallucinatory imagery, and his cool, sophisticated, streetsmart voice,The Petting Zoo is a frank, haunting examination of one artist’spersonal and spiritual quest. Billy Wolfram, an enigmatic thirty-eight- year-old star of the late -1980s New York art scene, views a show ofVelázquez paintings and is so humbled by their spiritual power that hesuffers an emotional breakdown and retreats to his Chelsea loft. Inseclusion, he recalls the most emblematic moments and figures of hischildhood and early career as he searches to recover the spark ofinspiration in his own work and life.
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