There’s nothing upbeat to say about this book.
Don’t get me wrong–it’s a fine book, very readable, presumably accurate, but from page one, this is a portrait of a talented but very disturbed human being. He gets fame, fortune, artistic recognition, he even gets the girl(s), but he doesn’t ever seem happy, and he dies at age 54.
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