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Title details for Radiant Days by Elizabeth Hand - Available

Radiant Days

#2 in series

by Elizabeth Hand
Cassandra Campbell
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She is a painter. He is a poet. Their art bridges time. It is 1978. Merle is in her first year at the Corcoran School of Art, catapulted from her impoverished Appalachian upbringing into a sophisticated, dissipated art scene. It is also 1870. The teenage poet Arthur Rimbaud is on the verge of breaking through to the images and voice that will make his name. The meshed power of words and art thins the boundaries between the present and the past—and allows these two troubled, brilliant artists to enter each other's worlds.

Radiant Days is a peerless follow-up to Elizabeth Hand's unforgettable, multiple-starred Illyria.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Illyria

  • Publisher

  • Awards

  • Release date

    April 12, 2012

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781481590037
      • File size: 249185 KB
      • Duration: 08:39:08

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 5.5
    • Interest Level: 9-12(UG)

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Merle, a talented artist living in 1970s America, and Arthur Rimbaud, the renowned late-nineteenth-century French poet, tumble into each other's worlds in this fantasy novel from the award-winning author of ILLYRIA. Cassandra Campbell holds her own as the sole narrator, but a pair of narrators might have been a better casting choice as the story is told in the alternating voices of the two prodigious young artists. Campbell adds an air of sophistication to Merle's slow twang as the character herself transforms from a na•ve, impoverished girl into a worldly young woman. However, Campbell's French accent for the young Rimbaud doesn't sound as natural. The author's note at the end provides useful historical information, but the bibliography doesn't add much. M.D. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from February 20, 2012
      Hand (Illyria) returns with a surreal tale of art’s ability to transcend time. In 1978, Merle Tappitt, a talented painter and graffiti artist, is kicked out of art school (where she had been having an affair with a teacher). Merle takes to the streets of Washington, D.C., and runs into a legendary, now homeless guitarist, Ted Kampfert, who points her toward a lockhouse by a canal where she can spend the night. Meanwhile, in 1870, 16-year-old poet Arthur Rimbaud sets out for Paris, also bedding down in a lockhouse. The next morning, Merle and Arthur awake together in 1978. Merle and Arthur, both gay, form a mystical bond, time-slipping between their worlds, each influencing the other to produce great art. Hand’s descriptions of art and poetry as they are being made are breathtaking—“In front of me was a whorl of black and red, emerald vines and orange flame, a shifting wheel of shadowy forms like those cave paintings drawn in charcoal”—and her troubled, beautifully drawn characters make the heart ache. Ages 14–up. Agent: Martha Millard, Martha Millard Literary Agency.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:5.5
  • Interest Level:9-12(UG)

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