David Sweetman, Author Harvest Books $23.95 (348p) ISBN 978-0-15-600060-4
This outstanding biography of the celebrated historical novelist was a Lambda Literary Award nominee. Photos. (July)
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David Sweetman, Author Simon & Schuster $35 (512p) ISBN 978-0-684-81179-6
Unlike comparable studies--Carl E. Schorske's Fin-de-Siecle Vienna or Elaine Showalter's Sexual Anarchy, for example--Sweetman's colorful new book (following his bios of Gaugin, Van Gogh and Mary Renault) gives life to the period by focusing on the...
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David Sweetman, Author Crown Publishers $30 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-57406-5
Sweetman's engrossing biography releases us from a narrow view of Van Gogh's life. Whatever the exact nature of the painter's mental illness, ``the works themselves are gloriously, happily `sane,' '' observes this British journalist who reports on...
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David Sweetman, Author Simon & Schuster $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-74338-3
This shrewd biography fleshes out major and minor episodes in the troubled painter's erratic life and judges his work according to art scholarship of the past two decades. ``An intimate, often surprising portrait of an obscure suicide who...
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David Sweetman, Author Simon & Schuster $34.5 (24p) ISBN 978-0-684-80941-0
Sweetman's brilliantly illuminating biography scrupulously lays to rest any number of myths surrounding Gauguin as it dismantles the conventional image of the bourgeois Parisian stockbroker who abandoned his wife and children in search of a Tahitian
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David Sweetman, Author, Xam W. Cartier, Author Harmony $18 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-57793-6
Like an explosive riff, this homage to jazz and the African-Americans who perform it is as innovative as Be-Bob, Re-Bob , the author's debut novel. Stricken with composer's block, Kat is a 1990s, San Francisco-based pianist who, in an ``insistent...
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