1949 Irving Stone PASSIONATE JOURNEY painter John Noble RELIGIOUS HC/DJ BCE

Description: Author: John Irving Title: Passionate Journey Binding: hardcover, with jacket Size: octavo; about 6" x 9" Pagination: 337pp Published: Doubleday; 1949 Condition: Very good; jacket present, and lightly chipped at margins and head and foot of spine; interioro clean and complete; slightly musty, but never damp [OCR is approximate, as always] This is Irving Stones first novel about a painter since the publication, fifteen years ago, of his Lust for Life. In a very genuine sense John Nobles tempestuous passage from darkness to self-expression, with all of the artists agony and ecstasy revealed, is the American counterpart of Vincent Van Goghs deeply moving life story All during his youth and early manhood Tohn Noble was driven by a compelling hunger, a hunger he could neither grasp nor define. When, ulti-mately, he learned the object of his hunger: for essence, for universality, for God, he then began his passionate journey in search of the Godhead, the means whereby he might bring God down out of the nebulous skies and into his troubled spirit, his hungry heart, his passionate art. ThE PAssioNatE lourney is a novel of love. First there was Frances, tall, black-eyed, devoted Frances of his youth in Wichita, who gave him up for his own sake, yet loved him to the end of her days; then tiny Maud, the beautiful Parisian model who loved him in her own amoral Bohemian fashion; and lastly Amelia, of the tender voice and gentle soul, Amelia who loved and married him in spite of staggering difficul ties, who lived and worked with him through years of alternating peace and terror, stayed with him because he could create sublime beauty with paint and brush and canvas and illuminate so bril liantly in terms of art all that seemed so confused to him in life itself. In spite of his deep spiritual longing John Noble played the part of a rip-roaring Wild Westerner all his life, never being seen without the two-gun holster which he wore strapped about his magnificent body. He used his guns once to shoot out the lights at the Beaux Arts Ball in Paris, and again to terrorize banks that refused to give him the money he thought was coming to him. He slept beside his ten-gallon Stetson in a Buffalo robe, drank prodigiously in cowboy fashion, knew far too intimately the insides of jails in Kansas, Paris, Lon-don, Provincetown, and New York; and all because he was ashamed to show his overpowering spiritual hunger to what he believed was a cynical and godless world Take a close look at the auction images for details of contents and condition. If you have any questions at all please send a message through eBay before bidding. NOTE: There may be more images in this listing than eBay shows in the top "gallery". Be sure to scroll down to view the full set, if so. Be sure to check our eBay Store for thousands of other listings like this one. Orders will be sent out within three business days of receipt of payment. If youre in a hurry and would like expedited shipping (Priority or Express shipping), please let us know before paying so we can adjust your invoice. Books are sent Media Rate within the US, and other small items are sent Parcel by default. If you would like combined shipping, please (1) contact us to let us know, and then (2) wait to pay until youre finished shopping (but try to keep it within a 4 day period, please). Just leave the items in your eBay Cart and then request an updated invoice after youre done. If you pay for an item, we are obliged to ship it to you, and cannot combine it with subsequent purchases. If youre waiting for a separate auction item to finish, please contact us to let us know. _gsrx_vers_1706 (GS 9.9 (1706))

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