EAN: 9781398532748

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From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today a profound and enthralling novel about beauty power and capital' s influence on art and those who devote their lives to creating it. Once Jay was an artist. Shortly after graduating from his London art school he was tipped for greatness a promising career already taking shape before him. Now undocumented in the United States he lives out of his car and makes a living as an essential worker delivering groceries in a wealthy area of upstate New York. The pandemic is still at its height--the greater public panicked in quarantine--and though he has returned to work Jay hasn' t recovered from the effects of a recent Covid case. When Jay arrives at a house set in an enormous acreage of woodland he finds the last person he ever expected to see again: Alice a former lover from his art school days. Their relationship was tumultuous and destructive ultimately ending when she ghosted him and left for America with his best friend and fellow artist Rob. In the twenty years since their fortunes could not be more different: as Jay teeters on the edge of collapse Alice and Rob have found prosperity in a life surrounded by beauty. Ashamed Jay hopes she won' t recognize him behind his dirty surgical mask when she does she invites him to recover on the property--where an erratic gallery owner and his girlfriend are isolating as well--setting a reckoning decades in the making into motion. Gripping and brilliantly orchestrated   Blue Ruin  moves back and forth through time to deliver an extraordinary portrait of an artist as he reunites with his past and confronts the world he once loved and left behind.

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