{"product_id":"9781035036554","title":"So Much Blue","description":"\u003cp\u003e`Absorbing in its simplicity about bourgeois banality and the quest for expression' New York TimesSo Much Blue is a gorgeous novel about art, memory and self-deception from the author of Erasure, now an Oscar-nominated film.   Kevin Pace is working on a painting that he won't allow anyone to see: not his children; not his best friend, Richard; not even his wife, Linda. The painting is a canvas of twelve feet by twenty-one feet and three inches, covered entirely in shades of blue. It may be his masterpiece or it may not; he doesn't know, nor does he particularly care.   What Kevin does care about are the events of the past: the affair he had with a young artist in Paris ten years ago and, further back, his journey to an El Salvador on the brink of war to retrieve Richard's drug-dealing brother. So Much Blue is a brilliant examination of how the past collides with present, and the secrets we keep from even ourselves.   Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.   `So Much Blue is such a perfectly structured novel . . . A generous, thrilling book by a man who might well be America's most under-recognized literary master' NPR\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45469885137117,"sku":"9781035036554","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781035036554.jpg?v=1720176901","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781035036554","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}