Last Radiance: Radical Lives, Bright Deaths

"A bracing and true book that teaches us new ways to be alive." Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize winning author, The End of the Myth

Cancer looms over this memoir like a modern god of petrochemical reckoning, but its brutality is softened-again and again-by the luminosity of love and artistic creation. After the protagonist's violent and seductive father dies a harrowing cancer death, she leaves home determined to become an artist. Her path takes her through the reckless, libertine world of the ...