So Much Blue

by Percival Everett
 
Elina says "So much blue is a tripartite novel following Kevin Pace, a likeable yet incredibly flawed artist reckoning with two key events in his past. Everett explores both the utterly absurd and completely banal nature of the human experience with witty humour, grace and beautiful prose."
 
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, covered entirely in shades of blue. It may be his masterpiece or it may not; he doesn't know, nor does he particularly care.
 
What Kevin does care about are the events of the past: the affair he had with a young artist in Paris ten years ago and, further back, his journey to an El Salvador on the brink of war to retrieve Richard’s drug-dealing brother. So Much Blue is a brilliant examination of how the past collides with present, and the secrets we keep from even ourselves.
 
Format: Paperback