Jennifer Clement Libros

The beautifully written, deeply affecting story of Jean-Michel Basquiat's partner, her past, and their life together An NPR Best Book of the Year Selection New York City in the 1980s was a mesmerizing, wild place. A hotbed for hip hop, underground culture, and unmatched creative energy, it spawned some of the most significant art of the 20th century. It was where Jean-Michel Basquiat became an avant-garde street artist and painter, swiftly achieving worldwide fame. During the years before his death at the age of 27, he shared his life with his lover and muse, Suzanne Mallouk. A runaway from an unhappy home in Canada, Suzanne first met Jean-Michel in a bar on the Lower East Side in 1980. Thus began a tumultuous and passionate relationship that deeply influenced one of the most exceptional artists of our time. In emotionally resonant prose, award-winning author Jennifer Clement tells the story of the passion that swept Suzanne and Jean-Michel into a short-lived, unforgettable affair. A poetic interpretation like no other, Widow Basquiat is an expression of the unrelenting power of addiction, obsession and love.

MADONNA. ANDY WARHOL. KEITH HARING. FAB 5 FREDDIE. DEBBIE HARRY. JULIAN SCHNABEL. Jean-Michel Basquiat's transition from the subways to the chic gallery spaces of Manhattan brought the artist into the company of many of New York's established and aspiring stars. Unable to deal with the demands that his new fame brought, in 1987, at the age of twenty-seven Basquiat, the most successful black visual artist in history, died from a heroin overdose.Widow Basquiat is an exploration of the artist as seen through the eyes of his muse, Suzanne. It is a love story like no other.

"With a simplicity that belies both Basquiat's work and life, Jennifer Clement delivers a tender and poetic exploration of the artist and more specifically, the relationship with his muse, Suzanne. Their union follows a path set by other singular couples in the history of art, such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, and Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock. The result is a distressing, yet deeply moving account of a love that strove to flourish under intense outside pressures."--BOOK JACKET.

'Now we make you ugly,' my mother said. 'The best thing you can be in Mexico is an ugly girl.' On the mountainside in rural Mexico where Ladydi lives, being a girl is dangerous. Especially a pretty one. If the Narcos hear there is a pretty girl on the mountain, they steal her. So when the black SUVs roll into town, Ladydi and her friends hide in the warren of holes scattered across the mountain, safely out of sight. Because the stolen girls don't come back. Ladydi is determined to get out, to find a life that offers more than just the struggle to survive. But she soon finds that the drug cartels have eyes everywhere, and the cities are no safer than the mountains.

Eine Frau streift durch Manhattan. Mit jedem Schritt weiter weg von einem Zuhause, in dem die Liebe blass, der Ehemann sprachlos geworden ist, trotz der langen schönen Zeit. Auf ihren Streifzügen entlang der Brownstones und den emporragenden Feuertreppen begegnen ihr Männer, wie aus der Phantasie entstiegen: der Dichter, der Astronaut, der Räuber, der Löwenbändiger … In diesen Momenten findet sie etwas, das sie für immer verloren glaubte. Lebendigkeit, Sinnlichkeit, Mut, die Spuren unmissverständlicher Gegenwart. Was muss sie tun, damit diese Gefühle nie wieder fliehen? Damit sie nicht verloren geht, wie die Menschen um sie herum, wie der Charakter dieser Stadt, die vom ganzen Geld der Welt für sie so still geworden ist, wie der Ehemann, der jeden Abend fragt: „Wo bist du gewesen?“ Jennifer Clement hat eine Sehnsuchtshymne geschrieben. Mit Auf der Zunge beschwört sie das Aufbäumen einer Frau gegen den Verlust der Träume und der Leidenschaft. In sanft-lyrischen, in brutal-ehrlichen Bildern erschafft sie ein Denkmal für einen geliebten Ort, eine geliebte Zeit im Leben.