{"product_id":"velibor-colic-the-uncannily-strange-and-brief-life-of-amedeo-modigliani-2011","title":"Velibor Colic: The Uncannily Strange and Brief Life of Amedeo Modigliani [2011]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn a series of expressionist vignettes, Velibor Colic's \u003cem\u003eThe Uncannily Strange and Brief Life of Amedeo Modigliani\u003c\/em\u003e paints a compelling portrait of a chaotic and tragically brief career, cut short by drugs and disease.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsisting of a series of vignettes, set mostly in the painter's studio and peopled by his wife Jeanne Hebuterne (who threw herself from an apartment-building the day after Modigliani's death), the prostitutes who were his occasional models and several Bohemian visitors, the novel spans the last months of Modigliani's life, evoking the strange workings of the painter's troubled and often drug-fuelled mind and its expression in his paintings, ultimately succeeding in conveying something of the intense artistic life of Paris in the first decades of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Uncannily Strange and Brief Life of Amedeo Modigliani\u003c\/em\u003e by Velibor Colic is translated from the French by Celia Hawkesworth and published by Pushkin Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVelibor Colic\u003c\/strong\u003e (b. 1964) was born in Bosnia. Since 1992 he has lived in France as a writer and freelance music journalist. His novel \u003cem\u003eThe Uncannily Strange and Brief Life of Amedeo Modigliani\u003c\/em\u003e has been translated into French, Italian and German, and adapted as a radio play.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Colic, Velibor \u0026 Colic, Velibor (Author) \u0026 Modigliani, Amedeo","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":53083769110867,"sku":"XG81906548452","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":53083769078099,"sku":"9781906548452","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/colic-velibor-colic-velibor-author-modigliani-amedeo-velibor-colic-the-uncannily-strange-and-brief-life-of-amedeo-modigliani-2011-1222026211.jpg?v=1771712048","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/velibor-colic-the-uncannily-strange-and-brief-life-of-amedeo-modigliani-2011","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}