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When his painting, Skyscape, perishes in a fire, Curtis Newns develops artist's block. So his wife seeks help from Red Patterson, a psychiatrist with his own TV show, only to discover to her horror that he is gaining total control of Newns' mind for nefarious ends. A look at our collective surrender to the power of today's mass media. By the author of Saint Peter's Wolf.
About the author
Michael Cadnum is the author of 35 books for adults and young adults. His work—which includes thrillers, suspense novels, historical fiction, and books about myths and legends—has been nominated for the National Book Award (The Book of the Lion), the Edgar Award (Calling Home and Breaking the Fall), and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (In a Dark Wood). A former National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, he is also the author of award-winning poetry. Seize the Storm (2012) is his most recent novel.
Michael Cadnum lives in Albany, California, with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Summary
Red Patterson is a TV psychiatrist, a video force, and a famous healer. His newest patient, Curtis Newns, is an artist with a damaged soul. Red is so intrigued by Curtis that he seeks to separate the artist and his wife and claim Curtis’s creative talent as his own. He decides to hold troubled, talented Curtis in his desert estate, where the macabre secrets of Red’s life are waiting to be unearthed. Set in the San Francisco Bay Area and the California desert, this is a story of love pitted against corruption—the essential battle of our time.
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“Arresting climax.” —Publishers Weekly
“The prose is superior.” —Library Journal
