Download The Center of the World AudioBook Free
Alternating between nineteenth-century European countries and present-day New England, this tale employs the great British painter J. M. W. Turner - and his scene of artists, intellectuals, and addicts - and Henry, a middle-aged family man whose in any other case mundane presence is disrupted by the discovery of The Middle of the World, Turner's controversial painting of Helen of Troy that were thought lost forever. This transcendently beautiful painting was so erotic that it was covered away and supposedly destroyed - until Henry happens to stumble after it while travelling at his summer home in the Adirondacks. Now in ownership of an subject of unimaginable value, Henry confirms himself torn between attempting to sell the work and keeping something of beauty in his life. Returning to the nineteenth century, the listener employs the creation of the painting and discovers more about Turner's beliefs, technique, manner, and indecorous affairs. Filled with beauty and love (of most types), this book explores the ever-evolving role of fine art in our lives.
