Lulu in New York and Other Tales

Product Details
Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
9781910787526
Published:
Publisher:
Unicorn
Dimensions:
128 pages - 270mm x 225mm

Often featuring solitary figures, the brooding atmospheres and urban landscapes of Max Ferguson’s paintings have a narrative and cinematic quality that hint at hidden stories, secrets, and conversations waiting to happen. Robert Power’s critically acclaimed fiction of longing and resolution, alienation and loving, provides the perfect vehicle to breathe life into these luscious paintings. Lulu in New York and Other Tales, is an exquisite and beautifully crafted volume of sixty stories from Power, inspired by Ferguson’s paintings. Some of the pictures, like Chess Players and Interiors leant themselves to whimsical or heart-rending conversations. Others, such as Woman in Bath, Subway and Billy’s Topless have violence and menace simmering at their core. And then there are paintings that tell tales of refection and of love both lost and found. An aged Mr. Gordon looking over the East River. The couple in Bobby Short recalling their first meeting. And another Couple in Hallway stumbling over their words, saddened by infidelity. What binds Ferguson’s painting and Power’s storytelling is a common understanding and appreciation of the nuances, agonies and ecstasies, complexities and delicacies, of the human condition.

Writer Robert Power freelanced as a journalist appearing regularly in various publication including The Guardian, New Statesman, Radio Times, Time Out. He has worked in international health for 30 years, travelling globally as a consultant, and publishing over 100 academic journal articles. He has written three novels: In Search of the Blue Tiger (Transit Lounge, 2012), The Swansong of Doctor Malloy (Transit Lounge, 2013), Tidetown (Transit Lounge, 2015) and a collection of short stories, Meatloaf in Manhattan (Transit Lounge, 2014). His memoir/travelogue Tell the truth, remember anything will be in bookshops in 2017. Max Ferguson is an American artist best known for his realistic paintings of vanishing urban scenes in and around New York City. Ferguson has worked on a number of series over the years, the New York City subway system, Coney Island, nocturnal imagery, paintings of his father and Jewish scenes. His work has been widely exhibited since the 1980s in many prominent private and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas; The British Museum, London; Museum of the City of New York; the Albertina, Vienna; the Seven Bridges Foundation, Connecticut.

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