The horse's mouth

Painter hero, the charming and larcenous Gulley Jimson, has an insatiable genius for creation and a no less remarkable appetite for destruction. Is he a great artist? a has-been? or an exhausted, drunken ne'er-do-well? He is without doubt a visionary, and as he criss-crosses London in search of money and inspiration the world as seen though his eyes appears with a newly outrageous and terrible beauty.

First sentence: I was walking by the Thames.

Year

1948

Language

English

Publisher

Perennial

Editions

11

ISBN

9780060920210

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