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An intoxicating and transcendent debut book that comes after a critic, an artist, and their shared muse as they find their way - and in the end collide - amid the ever-evolving New York City art arena of the 1980s. Welcome to SoHo at the starting point of the '80s: a gritty, quickly gentrifying playground for designers and writers looking to make it in the best city. Included in this: Wayne Bennett, a synesthetic fine art critic for The New York Times whose improbable condition enables him to spell it out fine art in profound, marvelous ways; and Raul Engales, an exiled Argentinian painter jogging from his history and the Dirty Warfare that has enveloped his country. As both men ascend in the downtown arts arena, dual tragedies punch, and each is confronted with a loss that acutely affects his relationship alive and to fine art. It is not until they can be inadvertently brought collectively by Lucy Olliason - a small-town beauty and Raul's muse - and a young orphan boy directed mysteriously from Buenos Aires that Wayne and Raul have the ability to rediscover some semblance of what they've lost. As inventive as Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad so when sweeping as Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings, Thursday Times in 1980boldly renders a complex moment when the meaning and mother nature of art is being all but upended, and New York City as a whole is reinventing itself. In risk-taking prose that is really as powerful as it is frolicsome, Molly Prentiss deftly explores the need for beauty, community, creation, and love in an ever-changing urban landscaping.
