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Simon & Schuster
May 2009
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Featuring: Richard Morris
288 pages
ISBN: 1416534091
EAN: 9781416534099
Hardcover
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Literature and Fiction Literary
Almost forty years after moving to Manhattan, author Richard
Morris has achieved if not stratospheric renown then at
least the accomplished career and caliber of fame that he
envisioned for himself as a younger man. Now financially
comfortable and artistically embittered, Richard is at his
home upstate recuperating from heart surgery and nursing
resentment toward his publisher and his reading public who
have found new, more exciting writers and left his star to
wane. In his attic, Richard comes across a stack of
notebooks, the journals he began keeping when he arrived in
New York in the late '70s. He is alternately fascinated and
repelled by the young man he meets in these pages:
hilariously naïve and egotistically misguided, the younger
Richard compulsively absorbs everything around him from art
and creativity to sex and drugs. As he reads more about
himself, written by himself, Richard discovers that the
pivotal moments of self-invention -- and self-realization --
occur far outside the conventional chronology of a
lifetime. Perforated Heart explores two wholly
different characters -- a young, ambitious artist and his
older self, jaded by both success and failure -- and creates
an unforgettable portrait of the two men who inhabit the one
individual. By turns meditative, deftly observant, and
scathingly analytical, Eric Bogosian re-creates the
landscape and atmosphere of 1970s New York City with fresh,
vivid imagery and reveals a powerful commentary on the
dynamic between creativity and commerce in the artistic
world. Perforated Heart is his most rewarding and
penetrating novel yet, with prose that reflects an equally
astonishing range of experience and emotion.
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