Alexander’s Last Painting

By J. Hayes Hurley

A successful abstract painter now living in an artists’ colony in upstate New York sits down with a short-story writer over a period of three days to discuss his life’s work. During the talks, there emerges a joyful, jazzlike riff recalling the painter’s fifty-year friendship with another abstract artist. The New York City art scene is featured along with tales of heartache and triumph.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
• Release date: Feb 28, 2017
• ISBN: 9781483465876

J. Hayes Hurley

J. Hayes Hurley is the author of 69 novels, including Those Brownsville Blues, Dawkins and Daughter, and The Turtle Bay Novels. As well, he holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University.

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