Old Man Goya

Informationen zum Autor Julia Blackburn Klappentext Biography of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya. "Sensitive and intelligent" "Irish Times". Zusammenfassung In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone deaf. In this extraordinary book Julia Blackburn follows Goya through the remaining thirty-five years of his life.

About the author

Julia Blackburn has written ten books of non-fiction, the most recent of which, Time Song, was shortlisted for the 2019 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize. Her family memoir The Three of Us won the 2009 J.R. Ackerley Award, and her two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper’s Companions, were both shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She lives in Suffolk and Italy.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Blackburn, Blackburn Julia
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.04.2003
• EAN: 9780099437253
• ISBN: 978-0-09-943725-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Vintage Pbk; Vintage Pbk
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Historical novels and narratives; Fiction > Narrative literature > Novel-like biographies; Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Biography: historical, political & military, Individual artists, art monographs, Biography: historical, political and military