Prior gossip and publicity presented Van Gogh. Stone's belief that Van Gogh was misunderstood in his lifetime and subsequently treated unfairly in biographies provided a good deal of the inspiration for Lust for Life. The most famous of all of Stone’s novels, it is the story of Vincent Van Goghbrilliant painter, passionate lover, and alleged madman. It is a thoughtful examination of his passions, his search for love and his battle against loneliness and physical collapse. Since its initial publication in 1934, Irving Stone’s Lust for Life has been a critical success, a multimillion-copy bestseller, and the basis for an Academy Award-winning movie. The recent success of Immortal Wife has created a fresh demand for this. Lust For Life, the fictionized biography of Van Gogh, was Stones first smash hit. The novel presents a lonely, intense man, suffering from epilepsy, driven by an obsession to create life from his paints. Noted in the last issue - as a modern classic shortly to be available in a new trade edition. In this novel, the biographer sets forth well-researched factual material about Van Gogh's life based chiefly on the three volumes of the artist's letters to his brother, Theo, and on material unearthed in research, while dramatizing, often very romantically, the artist's thoughts and conversations. Besides receiving the best press and remaining one of his best known works, Lust for Life, Stone's first successful fictionalized biography, gave direction to his career.
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