The aftermath of a suicide in 1980 punk rock LA, picks up all my favorite obsessions: the artist's struggle, the war between permission and perfection in creative life, California and Los Angeles history, a young woman's search for the authentic self, the music of language, the vulnerability of soulful people in a materialistic world-and the poisonous effect of a narcissistic parent on a sensitive child, in this case a mother/son family romance. Thought it was about time to add Paint it Black to my books. Her novel WHITE OLEANDER was an Oprah Book Club pick and made into a motion picture.

Her last novel PAINT IT BLACK was made into a feature film, available on NETFLIX. and CHIMES OF A LOST CATHEDRAL paint a portrait of a young poet coming of age during the Russian Revolution. Her current novels, THE REVOLUTION OF MARINA M. Of course, my conception of being a writer was to wear a cape and have Adventures.' She has acquired a couple of capes since then, and a few adventures. 'I wanted to Live, not spend my life in a library.

But when she won a student exchange to Keele University in England, where her passion for Russian history led her, she awoke in the middle of the night on her twenty-first birthday with the revelation she wanted to write fiction. As an undergraduate at Reed College, Fitch had decided to become an historian, attracted to its powerful narratives, the scope of events, the colossal personalities, and the potency and breadth of its themes. Urn:oclc:635692821 Republisher_date 20120328160813 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120328112847 Scanner Fitch was born in Los Angeles, a third-generation native, and grew up in a family of voracious readers. OL5523061W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 93.14 Pages 454 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0316182745 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:39:23 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA173601 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Date-raw OctoDonorīurlingamepubliclibrary Edition 1st Back Bay trade paperback ed.

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