The Petting Zoo
Jim Carroll$18.70
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A moving, vividly rendered novel from the author of The Basketball Diaries
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 10/25/2011
ISBN: 9780143120094
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.80d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 11/20/2011 pg. 32
Suffused with Jim Carroll's humor and sharp wit, his delicate yet hallucinatory imagery, and his cool, sophisticated, streetsmart voice, The Petting Zoo is a frank, haunting examination of one artist's personal and spiritual quest. Billy Wolfram, an enigmatic thirty-eight- year-old star of the late -1980s New York art scene, views a show of Vel zquez paintings and is so humbled by their spiritual power that he suffers an emotional breakdown and retreats to his Chelsea loft. In seclusion, he recalls the most emblematic moments and figures of his childhood and early career as he searches to recover the spark of inspiration in his own work and life.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 10/25/2011
ISBN: 9780143120094
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.80d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 11/20/2011 pg. 32