From Sea to Stormy Sea, Lawrence Block
From Sea to Stormy Sea, Lawrence Block
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From Sea to Stormy Sea
17 Stories Inspired by Great American Paintings

Author: Lawrence Block

Narrator: Xe Sands, Matt Godfrey

Unabridged: 8 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/23/2021


Synopsis

In the third installment of his acclaimed anthology series, master of crime fiction Lawrence Block has gathered together the best talent from popular fiction to produce an anthology of short stories based on masterpieces of American art.

Seventeen stories by seventeen brilliant writers, inspired by seventeen paintings. That was the formula for Lawrence Block's two groundbreaking anthologies, In Sunlight or in Shadow and Alive in Shape and Color, and it's on glorious display here once again in From Sea to Stormy Sea.

This time the paintings are exclusively the work of American artists, and the roster includes Harvey Dunn, John Steuart Curry, Reginald Marsh, Thomas Hart Benton, Helen Frankenthaler, Winslow Homer, Rockwell Kent, Grant Wood, Childe Hassam, and Andy Warhol. Among the star-studded lineup of writers you'll find Jerome Charyn, Jane Hamilton, Christa Faust, John Sandford, Sara Paretsky, Walter Mosley, Charles Ardai, Barry Malzberg, and Janice Eidus.

Contains mature themes.

About Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block is an award-winning, internationally renowned bestselling author. His prolific career spans over one hundred books, including four bestselling series as well as dozens of short stories, articles, and books on writing. Block lives in New York City with his wife, Lynne.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lori on November 17, 2020

Out of the seventeen stories, I enjoyed about four of them. Some of the stories seemed to correlate with the painting providing inspiration very little. My favorites were "Silver at Lakeside" by Warren Moore, "On Little Terry Road" by Tom Franklin, "A Matter of Options" by Gary Phillips, and "Baptis......more

Goodreads review by Amy on September 22, 2021

Block does it again - pulled together a spectacular group of writers who produced stunning short stories inspired by paintings. This time, he chose to feature American painters. Lawrence Block knows good stories, and there's not a flop among these. Some I enjoyed more than others, but there were non......more

Goodreads review by Anthony on December 10, 2019

I received an e-arc from the editor but have only just finished reading the week of publication. Longer review to follow, but this is another wonderfully diverse collection of stories that veer from the very dark to lightly romantic. Some crime fiction, some period pieces. Some which take place in t......more

Goodreads review by Criminal on December 17, 2019

Themed anthologies are hit or miss; sometimes the concept creates a cohesive whole (and other times an incoherent hole). So far, Lawrence Block has edited three anthologies of stories inspired by art, and the newest—as people who’ve never stepped foot on a horse track say—is the Trifecta. The first,......more

Goodreads review by RMazin on September 22, 2019

An unexpected gift for 2020 is the publication of Lawrence Block’s new art inspired anthology of paintings and writers. Following his two previous books; In Sunlight and in Shadow (Edward Hopper) and Alive in Shape in Color, this title focuses on American art. Writers who participated in framing a s......more