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In another of the world's most beautiful metropolitan areas, an ageing sculptor functions as an inspiration and a warning to two aspiring designers. Pursuing literary glory, Edward Gunther gives up his job as a copywriter, markets everything he has, and moves with his better half and three children from Chicago to Venice. But success does not come as quickly or as painlessly as Edward got hoped. During his first month in Italy, he struggles to get his essays publicized, argues with his better half about the family money, and embarks on an unsteady affair with Nina Callahan, an American poet who insists on keeping him at arm's period. It appears that Edward's dreams will never come true, but when he discovers that Nina has befriended Thaddeus Stitch, the famous sculptor, a ray of expectation shows up. If anyone has the spark of genius, it is Stitch, who counted Yeats and Rilke as his friends which is inarguably one of the 20th century's greatest artists. Perhaps some of the old man's creative energy will rub off on Edward, to whom an email of encouragement from such a luminary means everything. But Stitch is bitter and faraway, preoccupied with his own doubts. Ancient now, he feels his talent sliding from his grasp and recognizes that the planet is preparing to proceed without him. He knows that his masterpiece, a assortment of characters and abstractions on an island in the Venetian Lagoon, will eventually disappear beneath the growing waters of the Adriatic. During the period of a foggy winter, these three lonesome souls try to come to terms with the direction of these lives and this is of these work. Written soon after Richard Stern found Ezra Pound and more popular as a impressive portrait of that inimitable literary lion, Stitch is an incisive and sympathetic book about the joys and disappointments of your life specialized in art.
