{"product_id":"the-assassination-of-gabriel-champion-angela-carole-brown-9780615771243","title":"The Assassination of Gabriel Champion","description":"This modernist tale of the rarely depicted Los Angeles art scene explores themes of violence and redemption. Setting its stage in the diverse boroughs of pre-millennial L.A. and climaxing in the feverish streets of Paris, this work is a kaleidoscope of violent mood and memory, a meditation on art and artists, and an existential, atmospheric, and sometimes brutal parable on the complex nature of love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWriter NONA CHILDE is in love with artists. They are the very embodiment of all her romantic notions. So when she meets DANIEL CROSS, a gifted painter who is teetering on the brink of Heathcliffian torment (an intoxicating contrivance in Nona's mind), she is presented with the opportunity to finally complete the arc of a long-coveted torch song life. What she isn't prepared for is a real playing out of the scourge of an artist's soul; one far darker than any she could conjure with a pen. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe relationship that ensues between the brooding Englishman artist and the passionate young American authoress thrusts them headlong into a kaleidoscope of violent mood and memory, of euphoric, self-indulgent, torrential love. They begin to tear apart as irascibly as they are brought together, but not before involving one ARTHUR HUGHES DUFRESNE, a local poet with a devastating past who succeeds in complicating the tangle, in this tale that asks the question: \u003ci\u003eWhat can be forgiven?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Angela Carole Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0615771246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780615771243\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Haiku House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/20\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 492\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.10d","brand":"Angela Carole Brown","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49082530300159,"sku":"9780615771243","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-assassination-of-gabriel-champion-angela-carole-brown-9780615771243","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}