“Van Gogh tries to dream a life of color,” writes Bowden. Rendered in Bowden's inimitable style, more prose poetry than reportage, he evokes panoramas that contain the potential for respite and offer a state of grace all but lost in the endless wars of man.īowden travels back in time to the worlds of artists Francisco Goya and Vincent van Gogh, the latter painting furiously against encroaching madness. While his earlier volumes were suffused with violence and war, Bowden offers here a celebration of rebirth and regrowth. Sonata marks the sixth and final installment of Charles Bowden’s towering “Unnatural History of America” series. "I believe every sunrise and I remember the smell of wet grass, the color of robins, and rustle of leaves on the big oaks that outlive nations, all this comes with each sunrise."
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