De Koonings Bicycle, Robert Long
De Koonings Bicycle, Robert Long
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De Kooning's Bicycle
Artists and Writers in the Hamptons

Author: Robert Long

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 5 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006


Synopsis

Some of the twentieth century’s most important artists and writers—from Jackson Pollock to Saul Steinberg, Fairfield Porter to Jean Stafford—lived and worked on the East End of Long Island. The home they made there would affect their creative work for years to come. Pollock found there a connection to nature that inspired some of the most significant painting of our time. James Schuyler and Frank O’Hara found companionship and raw material for their poems on South Main Street and the city train. Willem de Kooning rode his bike every day to Gardiner’s Bay, where the light informed every brushstroke he put to canvas from the early 1960s on.Through searching, lyrical vignettes, critic and poet Robert Long mixes storytelling with history to recreate these lives and events that shaped American art and literature.

About Robert Long

Robert Long is the art critic for the East Hampton Star, the author of four books of poetry, and a contributor to such publications as the New Yorker and Partisan Review. He lives in East Hampton, New York.

About Grover Gardner

Grover Gardner has recorded more than 650 audiobooks since beginning his career in 1981.  He's been named one of the "Best Voices of the Century" as well as a "Golden Voice" by AudioFile magazine.  Gardner has garnered over 20 AudioFile Earphones Awards and is the recipient of an Audio Publishers Association Audie Award, as well as a three-time finalist.  In 2005, Publishers Weekly deemed him "Audiobook Narrator of the Year." Gardner has also narrated hundreds of audiobooks under the names Tom Parker and Alexander Adams.  Among his many titles are Marcus Sakey's At the City's Edge, as well as Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and John Irving's The Cider House Rules.  Gardner studied Theater and Art History at Rollins College and received a Master's degree in Acting from George Washington University.  He lives in Oregon with his significant other and daughter.


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Quotes

“The much honored Grover Gardner makes Long’s portraits of Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, and Saul Steinberg come alive…Highly recommended for all collections. A Library Journal Best Audiobook of 2006 for Nonfiction.” Library Journal (starred review)

“Gardner, as usual, delivers the prose with depth and alacrity, painting rich word pictures…[He] delivers a cinematic audio treatment of these debauched characters, guiding us on a tour of their creative minds through the lens of their daily lives at this time and place.” AudioFile

“Mesmerizing and moving.” Booklist


Awards

  • Library Journal Best Audiobook