All the Days And Nights

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All the Days And Nights
Niven Govinden

From the author of ‘Black Bread White Beer’.The East Coast of America, 1980.Anna Brown, a dying artist, works on her final portrait. Obsessive and secretive, it is a righting of her past failures; her final statement.John Brown, her husband and life-long muse, has left; walked out of their home one morning to travel cross-country in search of the paintings he has sat for.As their stories unfold – independently, for the first time in many years – a passionate unconventional relationship is revealed, between two people living through the most tumultuous decades of modern history.All the Days and Nights is the story of an art hunt during a twilight period of painting. It lays bare two relationships that are ever changing and incomparable: of the artist and the muse, and of lovers. It is an exploration of what it means to create, what it means to inspire, what it means to live.

NIVEN GOVINDEN

All the Days and Nights

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Source ISBN: 9780007580491

Ebook Edition © September 2014 ISBN: 9780007580507

Version: 2015-10-13

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

Frida Kahlo

I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood.

Walt Whitman

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