1, Rue du Bout d'Arles, with a bouquet of wildflowers and a request to paint her-and before long, a deep, intense attachment grows between Rachel and the gifted, tormented soul.īut the sanctuary Rachel seeks from her own troubled past cannot be found here, for demons war within Vincent's heart and mind. He arrives at their first assignation at No. This is no ordinary artist but the eccentric painter Vincent van Gogh-and their meeting marks the beginning of a remarkable relationship. "I'd heard about him but had never seen him, the foreigner with the funny name who wandered the countryside painting pictures."įrom a talented new author comes a poignant and haunting novel of creation and desire, passion and madness, art and love.Ī young prostitute seeking temporary refuge from the brothel, Rachel awakens in a beautiful garden in Arles to discover she is being sketched by a red-haired man in a yellow straw hat.
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