A young artist meets Stephen Crane as America’s hunger for empire draws them both into war
Oliver Fischer, a self-styled bohemian, boardwalk caricaturist, and student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, enrages his banker father and earns the contempt of Philadelphia’s foremost realist painter Thomas Eakins when he attempts to stage Manet’s scandalous painting The Luncheon on the Grass. Soon after, he is ensnarled, along with Mark Twain and Andrew Carnegie, in a clash between the Anti-Imperialist League and their expansionist foes. Sent to Key West to sketch the 1898 American invasion of Cuba, in company with war correspondent Stephen Crane, he realizes–in the flash of a naval bombardment–that our lives are suspended by a thread between radiance and annihilation.
The Caricaturist, the penultimate, stand-alone book in The American Novels series, is a tragicomic portrait of America struggling to honor its most-cherished ideals at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Author: Norman Lock
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Published: 07/02/2024
Series: American Novels
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.00w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781954276277
Language: English
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