When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Fernanda Eberstadt
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The late 1980’s
- Setting: New York City
- Principal Characters: Isaac Hooker, Dorothea (Dolly) Diehl Gebler, Alfred Gebler, Casey Hanrahan, Willa Perkins
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Homelessness or homeless people, New York City, Rural or country life, Guilt, Creative process, Dropouts, Painting or painters, Loneliness, Philanthropy or philanthropists
- Locales: New York, NY
In this brilliant novel, Isaac Hooker (a character loosely based on artist Jean Michel Basquiat and about whom Fernanda Eberstadt has written in two previous novels, Low Tide, 1985, and Isaac and His Devils, 1991) is a small town New Hampshire wunderkind who, when awarded a scholarship to Harvard, drops out and goes to New York City, “which everyone came to, on the supposition that here he would be better equipped to execute his life’s work, whatever it might be.” A mugging, a broken arm, a bout of homelessness, and a total of two years of down-and- outness lead, by...
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