Self-portrait With Boy: A Novel

  • Autor: Rachel Lyon
  • Narrador: Julia Whelan
  • Editora: Simon & Schuster
  • Duração: 9:40:28
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Sinopse

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

“Fabulously written, this spellbinding debut novel is a real page-turner. A powerful, brilliantly imagined story” (Library Journal, starred review) about an ambitious young artist whose accidental photograph of a boy falling to his death could jumpstart her career, but devastate her most intimate friendship.

Lu Rile is a relentlessly focused young photographer struggling to make ends meet. Working three jobs, responsible for her aging father, and worrying that her crumbling loft apartment is being sold to developers, she is at a point of desperation. One day, in the background of a self-portrait, Lu accidentally captures an image of a boy falling to his death. The photograph turns out to be startlingly gorgeous, the best work of art she’s ever made. It’s an image that could change her life…if she lets it.

But the decision to show the photograph is not easy. The boy is her neighbors’ son, and the tragedy brings all the building’s residents together. It especially unites Lu with the boy’s beautiful grieving mother, Kate. As the two forge an intense bond based on sympathy, loneliness, and budding attraction, Lu feels increasingly unsettled and guilty, torn between equally fierce desires: to advance her career, and to protect a woman she has come to love.

Set in early 90s Brooklyn on the brink of gentrification, Self-Portrait with Boy is a “sparkling debut” (The New York Times Book Review) about the emotional dues that must be paid on the road to success and a powerful exploration of the complex terrain of female friendship. “The conflict is rich and thorny, raising questions about art and morality, love and betrayal, sacrifice and opportunism, and the chance moments that can define a life…It wrestles with the nature of art, but moves with the speed of a page-turner” (Los Angeles Times).

Capítulos

  • SelfPortraitWithBoy 21 Ch19

    Duração: 16min
  • SelfPortraitWithBoy 22 Ch20

    Duração: 09min
  • SelfPortraitWithBoy 23 Ch21

    Duração: 24min
  • SelfPortraitWithBoy 24 Ch22

    Duração: 13min
  • SelfPortraitWithBoy 25 Ch23

    Duração: 28min
  • SelfPortraitWithBoy 26 Ch24

    Duração: 07min
  • SelfPortraitWithBoy 27 Ch25

    Duração: 15min
  • SelfPortraitWithBoy 28 Ch26

    Duração: 19min
  • SelfPortraitWithBoy 29 Ch27

    Duração: 12min
  • SelfPortraitWithBoy 30 Ch28

    Duração: 19min
  • SelfPortraitWithBoy 31 Ch29

    Duração: 20min
  • SelfPortraitWithBoy 32 Ch30

    Duração: 11min
  • SelfPortraitWithBoy 33 Ch31

    Duração: 03min
  • SelfPortraitWithBoy 34 Credits

    Duração: 27s
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