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But when she finds out her parents left her their house, she discovers more than just an inheritance waiting for her. Can I agree to his terms and consequences? From Publishers Weekly Browning toys with form in her quirky debut, an epistolary love story that, despite a few misfires—the images, for instance, sprinkled throughout feel like unfortunate clip art—should hook readers whose tastes run to the unconventional. Two Dollar Radio March 1, Language: Related Video Shorts 0 Upload your video. Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review.

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. This wonderfully smutty art novel entertained me, turned me on, made me think and made me cry. It asks many questions: Are all lovers dreams and projections? Do we obsessively describe our love to just relive it, or to read and reread it until we think our version is more real because it is written and because we have read it so many more times than it actually happened?

Do we let our imaginations run wild just to transform the unbearable pain of separation into something we can control, to make loneliness our friend or even our lover? This novel might frustrate you sometimes because, like life itself, it does not answer these questions, but, and this seems to me to be also like life itself, if you give yourself over to it, it will delight you with its salient, throbbing, vivid energy, shapes, colors and sensations. The Correspondence Artist is utterly engrossing. At once funny, erotic, meditative, playful, sometimes sad, it is a book about friendship and love, about the trappings and sexiness of fame, and above all about writing itself.

Peppered with yummy nuggets of psychoanalytic theory and gossipy history, the book is a pure pleasure. See all 3 reviews. Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers. Learn more about Amazon Giveaway.

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It did get a bit boring for me though to hear about the same event despite the differences. Related Video Shorts 0 Upload your video. As the affair progresses, she begins to narrate the story of their not-quite-love by quoting her correspondence. Sep 04, Kristina Franken rated it it was amazing. I loved the idea of envisioning a single lover into several different ones.

Readers are urged not to resent a wit superior to their own, since it is deployed entirely for their particular entertainment. There are those who stand to profit—and suffer—from the revelation of her paramour's identity, so in the service of telling her tale, she creates a series of fictional lovers. There is Tzipi, a sixty-eight-year-old Nobel-winning female Israeli writer; Binh, a twenty-something Vietnamese video artist; Santuxto, a poetic Basque separatist; and Djeli, a dreadlocked Malian world-music star.

Barbara Browning's captivating wit and passionate intelligence make The Correspondence Artist a love story like none other. Barbara Browning has a PhD from Yale in comparative literature. She's also a poet and a dancer. She lives with her son in Greenwich Village. Paperback , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Correspondence Artist , please sign up.

Be the first to ask a question about The Correspondence Artist. Lists with This Book. Jun 20, Mike rated it it was amazing Shelves: Like Roth's The Counterlife or Chris Marker's Sans Soleil , Barbara Browning's The Correspondence Artist is a marvelous tesseract, an unidentifiable flying object giddily exploring fictional lives and "real" personae, the extraordinary and the everyday, heartache and jeu d'esprit.

This was my first time reading Browning's work but it won't be my last. May 05, M. Love the conceit and its execution, though it went on a bit too long, I think. In this work of autofiction, Browning's narrator chronicles a recent romantic "intrigue" that takes place largely over correspondence. The same basic events of the love plot occur again and again, each one taking a different form with Love the conceit and its execution, though it went on a bit too long, I think. The same basic events of the love plot occur again and again, each one taking a different form with each paramour.

Romantic fantasy for intellectuals, clever and enthusiastically intimate.

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"The Correspondence Artist is smart, funny, sexy, knowledgeable, subtle, disturbing, light-hearted, obsessive, and tragic: a comedy that, I surmise, is wholly . The Correspondence Artist has ratings and 35 reviews. Mike said: Like Roth's The Counterlife or Chris Marker's Sans Soleil, Barbara Browning's The Co. .

I love Barbara Browning! Nov 23, A rated it it was ok Shelves: A fascinating academic exercise, but not really a good novel. Browning has lots of interesting things to say and connections to tease out, but she's really not capable enough of a crafter of fiction to justify using the novel la format to present her ideas. Better to have done this up as a sort of Wayne Koestenbaumesque memoir-treatise piece than try and stumble through this unsuccessful, sort of half-baked novel concept. Feb 18, Tobias rated it really liked it Shelves: Reviewed this at Vol.

Mar 23, Lorri Steinbacher rated it really liked it. I liked the concept of embodying one real life lover in the characters of four fictional ones. All of the characters were very different and yet they all captured something essential one assumes in the "paramour". It's funny because I struggled with the "intellectual" nature of some of the "narrative", not being knowledgable about Lacanian psychoanalysis, for instance, and wondered if as a consequence was missing something essential.

As I thought about it, though, I realized that the novel wor I liked the concept of embodying one real life lover in the characters of four fictional ones. As I thought about it, though, I realized that the novel works even so, perhaps because it sets a tone? I don't know a thing about Lacan, but I think I can imagine the personality of a character who might. The author captures how I feel about my feelings about the work from her website for the book: Mar 04, Sabra Embury rated it liked it. The same fantasy of a woman and her correspondence with a paramour, fictionalized repeatedly in a work of fiction, spells a hell of a lot of cerebral make-believe happening in the Correspondence Artist.

On a scale of self-serving catharsis disguised as a novel, Browning's first work seems to hover in the higher numbers. The brilliance, is in her meaty incorporations of somewhat obscure intellectual figures as substitutes substituting other substitutes in a layer cake of looping infatuation. Otherwise, it's best to care the first time the scenarios and emails are revealed, if an impetus is to exist past the novel's halfway point. Oct 16, Emily rated it it was amazing Shelves: Our narrator is having an affair with someone famous, and in order to protect the paramour's identity, she creates 4 other identities through which to tell her story.

Imagine 4 flashlights, each a different color, shining inward to the central circle of our story. They combine to create a whitish light - "clever lies which secretly say the truth" - but there are still shades of hue and shadow.

Browning offers commentaries on Fame, Culture, and Identity, and how those influence Love. Her deft pas Our narrator is having an affair with someone famous, and in order to protect the paramour's identity, she creates 4 other identities through which to tell her story. Her deft passion and playfulness coupled with intellectual, psychological, and cultural analysis reminds me of Jeanette Winterson.

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Sep 19, Mary rated it liked it. I received this book from a contest on GoodReads. When I first received the book it seemed interesting, but the further I read it, the more it seemed to be all over the place. I understood what she was trying to do, but after a while it became a bit tiring to figure out what all of the references were to.

I would put it off until I had more time to sit down and look up all of the references, but I'd suggest it to anyone who was interested in art and media. All in all, not my style of literature, I received this book from a contest on GoodReads. All in all, not my style of literature, but could be fascinating to those who are interested in the above.

Dec 04, Stevie rated it liked it Shelves: Fun, light read that's also smart and clever. The narrator is ostensibly sharing the story of her affair with a celebrity, but telling it with four different avatars standing in for "the paramour". Some portions of it comes off more real than others one of the fictionalized suitors had my eyes glazing over when he made an entrance , but for the most part I was quite engaged and liked the way the live of our protagonist was revealed through her writings and musings. Nov 19, Kirby rated it really liked it. The Correspondence Artist is way cool!

This is the story of a freelance writer who has an affair with a celebrity who can't be named; in the interest of protecting her paramour's identity, she invents four fictitious lovers and tells the tale of their relationship through emails. Simultaneously super intellectual AND a fun, entertaining read, unlike anything I've ever read.

Mar 19, Jonathan Lee B. The Correspondence Artist is reading someone else's sexts. Oct 07, Dearwassily rated it liked it. Interesting and circuitous, though it got sort of monotonous near the end. Jun 04, Gary Butler rated it did not like it Shelves: Number out of on my all time book list. Follow the link below to see my video review: Mar 24, Liza added it. I didn't think I would like this, but I did!

Skimmed to the Tzipi parts, lez be honest. Jan 08, Oriana marked it as to-read Recommended to Oriana by: For someone who screams and screams about always thinking for yourself, I can be surprisingly sheeplike when it comes to certain influences. I mean, where's the line between fervent, frenzied devotion and brainless following?

The point is, if a recommendation comes from, say, Flavorpill, or McSweeney's, or Vice , or Gawker, chances are I'm all ears. And an extension of Gawker is Emily Books , led of course by Emily Gould whom I have elsewhere professed my undying love for. The For someone who screams and screams about always thinking for yourself, I can be surprisingly sheeplike when it comes to certain influences. The January rec from Emily Books is this little beauty, and here's what they say about it: The Correspondence Artist is an instructive and dizzyingly smart book about love, sex, fame, and email.

Vivian, a writer and single mother living in New York, finds herself involved with an internationally mega-famous artist. As the affair progresses, she begins to narrate the story of their not-quite-love by quoting her correspondence. But who is the recipient of Vivian's affection and her emails? It depends on which version of her story you prefer.

She describes her lover, variously, as a Nobel Prize-winning Israeli novelist named Tzipi, a Vietnamese enfant terrible video artist named Binh, a Basque separatist activist named Santuxto, and a Malian rock star named Djeli. This kaleidoscopic approach allows Vivian to maintain an ironic remove from her seduction, her disappointments and triumphs, and even her heartbreak. But the overlapping layers of fiction also work to create a multi-dimensional portrait of a relationship that's even more vivid due to being partially obscured.

Mar 01, Althea J. I saw the cover and without reading anything about it, I bought it, based on the gorgeous cover art alone. Then, within the first several pages, she references a Thelonious Monk album I've never heard of before Monk: