{"product_id":"the-caricaturist-norman-lock-9781954276277","title":"The Caricaturist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA young artist meets Stephen Crane as America's hunger for empire draws them both into war\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOliver Fischer, a self-styled bohemian, boardwalk caricaturist, and student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, enrages his banker father and earns the contempt of Philadelphia's foremost realist painter Thomas Eakins when he attempts to stage Manet's scandalous painting \u003ci\u003eThe Luncheon on the Grass\u003c\/i\u003e. Soon after, he is ensnarled, along with Mark Twain and Andrew Carnegie, in a clash between the Anti-Imperialist League and their expansionist foes. Sent to Key West to sketch the 1898 American invasion of Cuba, in company with war correspondent Stephen Crane, he realizes--in the flash of a naval bombardment--that our lives are suspended by a thread between radiance and annihilation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Caricaturist\u003c\/i\u003e, the penultimate, stand-alone book in The American Novels series, is a tragicomic portrait of America struggling to honor its most-cherished ideals at the dawn of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Norman Lock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1954276273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781954276277\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bellevue Literary Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 5.00w x 1.30d","brand":"Norman Lock","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44616532918527,"sku":"9781954276277","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dc842550-11d4-4470-b6af-0d438b46ceb4.jpg?v=1703020864","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-caricaturist-norman-lock-9781954276277","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}