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    The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts
    The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts
    The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts
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    The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts

    Written by Nicholas Delbanco

    Narrated by Jeff Crawford

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    About this audiobook

    The Art of Youth is a moving inquiry into the nature of artistic prodigies who did their major work at an early age. Renowned novelist Nicholas Delbanco gives us a triptych of indelible portraits: the American writer Stephen Crane (immortalized by The Red Badge of Courage); British artist Dora Carrington (called “the most neglected serious painter of her time”); and the legendary composer George Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue, Porgy and Bess).

    All three lived colorful, productive lives before dying early, at an average age of thirty-five. In this learned and elegant book, Delbanco discovers what it is we mourn in authors who pass away so young, and muses on his own life—one marked by both early success and longevity.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateNov 19, 2013
    ISBN9781480570979
    The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts
    Author

    Nicholas Delbanco

    Nicholas Delbanco is the author of more than two dozen works of fiction and nonfiction-including, most recently, Lastingness: The Art of Old Age. He is the Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Michigan, where he directs the Hopwood awards program and was for many years the director of the MFA program in creative writing.

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    • 1/5
      Premise was interesting, but the author was repetitive and full of pretension. He has the temerity to say that if Carrington had killed herself "just 3 weeks later" the sum total of the 3 subjects ages would have been 105 years. He called it "arithmetically cute", I call it offense and pointless.