The Foot of Clive

John, Berger

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Booker Prize-winning author John Berger gives us a stunning critical assessment of Pablo Picasso: At the height of his powers, Picasso was the artist as revolutionary: breaking through the niceties of form in order to mount a direct challenge to the values of his time. At the height of his fame, he was the artist as royalty: incalculably wealthy, universally idolized—and wholly isolated.  Berger—one of this century’s most insightful cultural historians—trains his penetrating gaze upon this most prodigious and enigmatic painter and on the Spanish landscape and very particular culture that shaped his life and work. Writing with a novelist’s sensuous evocation of character and detail, and drawing on an erudition that embraces history, politics, and art, Berger follows Picasso from his childhood in Malaga to the Blue Period and Cubism, from the creation of Guernica to the painted etchings of his final years. He gives us the full measure of Picasso’s triumphs and unsparing reckoning of their cost—in exile, in loneliness, and in a desolation that drove him, in his last works, into an old man’s furious and desperate frenzy at the beauty of what he could no longer create.

The Success and Failure of Picasso (Granta Paperbacks)

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin Books / Granta

Corker's Freedom

Contemporary

A Painter of Our Time

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man - his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the patients he treats, the line between his life and his work is happily blurred.
In A Fortunate Man, Berger's text and the photography of Jean Mohr reveal with extraordinary intensity the life of a remarkable man. It is a portrait of one selfless individual and the rural community for which he became the hub. Drawing on psychology, biography and medicine A Fortunate Man is a portrait of sacrifice. It is also a profound exploration of what it means to be a doctor, to serve a community and to heal.
With a new introduction by writer and GP, Gavin Francis.

A Fortunate Man : The Story of a Country Doctor

Cambridge : Granta Books

Seventh Man

Business & Money

Penguin Uk

Art and revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the role of the artist in the USSR

In the mythic city of Troy, amidst the shanty-towns, factories, opulent hotels, fading heritages and steadfast dreams, the children and grandchildren of rural peasants pursue meagre livings as best they can. And two young lovers embark upon a passionate journey of love and survival.

Lilac and Flag (Granta Paperbacks)

Granta

A novel by the author of "Ways of Seeing", "Once in Europe" and "Lilac and the Flag". He also wrote "Corker's Freedom" and "A Painter of Our Time".

Foot of Clive

Penguin Putnam~trade

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