The Center Of The World: A Novel by Thomas Van Essen

Alternating between nineteenth-century England and present-day New York, this is the story of renowned British painter J. M. W. Turner and his circle of patrons and lovers. It is also the story of Henry Leiden, a middle-aged family man with a troubled marriage and a dead-end job, who finds his life transformed by his discovery of Turner’s The Center of the World , a mesmerizing and unsettling painting of Helen of Troy that was thought to have been lost forever. This painting has such devastating erotic power that it was kept hidden for almost two centuries, and was even said to have been destroyed... until Henry stumbles upon it in a secret compartment at his summer home in the Adirondacks.

Publisher:	Other Press, LLC
Year:	2012
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9781590515495
Condition:	Very Good
Description:	Uncorrected Proof.

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SKU: 1601139
Location: Fiction