Tuesday Nights In 1980 Molly Prentiss by Molly Prentiss 9781501121067, 1501121065 instant download after payment.

A transcendent debut novel that follows a critic, an artist, and a desirous, determined young woman as they find their way amid the ever-evolving New York City art scene of the 1980s

“A vital, sensuous, edgy, and suspenseful tale of longing, rage, fear, compulsion, and love.”   -  Booklist

Welcome to SoHo at the onset of the eighties: a gritty, not-yet-gentrified playground for artists and writers looking to make it in the big city. Among them: James Bennett, a synesthetic art critic for the New York Times whose unlikely condition enables him to describe art in profound, magical ways, and Raul Engales, an exiled Argentinian painter running from his past and the Dirty War that has enveloped his country. As the two men ascend in the downtown arts scene, dual tragedies strike, and each is faced with a loss that acutely affects his relationship to life and to art.

As inventive as Jennifer Egan's A Visit From The Goon Squad and as sweeping as Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings, Tuesday Nights in 1980 boldly renders a complex moment when the meaning and nature of art is being all but upended, and New York City as a whole is reinventing itself. 

“An intoxicating Manhattan fairy tale…As affecting as it is absorbing. A thrilling debut.” -  Kirkus Reviews

"Prentiss’s first novel is about art: making it, loving it and letting it go. And the book itself is a work of artistry...[T]he writing -  authentic and frenetic - makes the material feel fresh. I’ve been there, done that, but I held my breath the whole way."  -  Helen Ellis, The New York Times Book Review

In risk-taking prose that is as powerful as it is playful, Molly Prentiss deftly explores the need for beauty, community, creation, and love in an ever-changing urban landscape.