Unfinished Novel and Other Stories

From the Orange Prize-winning author of Property comes a vital and heartbreaking collection of short stories that turns an unflinching eye upon artists—driven and blocked, desired and detested, infamous and sublime—as they struggle beneath the tyranny of Art to reconcile their audience with their muse. • “A triumph”—The New Yorker

A painter who owes his small success to a man he despises, discovers that his passivity has cost him the love that might have set him free. A writer of modest tale...