So Much Blue (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781555977825)

A new high point for a master novelist, an emotionally charged reckoning with art, marriage, and the past

Kevin Pace is working on a painting that he won't allow anyone to see: not his children; not his best friend, Richard; not even his wife, Linda. The painting is a canvas of twelve feet by twenty-one feet (and three inches) that is covered entirely in shades of blue. It may be his masterpiece or it may not; he doesn't know or, more accurately, doesn't care.

What Kevin does care about are the events of the past. Ten years ago he had an affair with a young watercolorist in Paris. Kevin relates this event with a dispassionate air, even a bit of puzzlement. It's not clear to him why he had the affair, but he can't let it go. In the more distant past of the late seventies, Kevin and Richard traveled to El Salvador on the verge of war to retrieve Richard's drug-dealing brother, who had gone missing without explanation. As the events of the past intersect with the present, Kevin struggles to justify the sacrifices he's made for his art and the secrets he's kept from his wife.

So Much Blue features Percival Everett at his best, and his deadpan humor and insightful commentary about the artistic life culminate in a brilliantly readable new novel.

Author: Percival Everett
ISBN-10: 1555977820
ISBN-13: 9781555977825
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Language: English
Published: 06/13/2017
Pages: 236
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/01/2017 pg. 111
Library Journal 02/15/2017 pg. 75
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2017 pg. 46
Publishers Weekly 04/10/2017
Booklist 05/01/2017 pg. 59
Shelf Awareness 07/25/2017
Shelf Awareness 12/12/2017