The Violet Hour

by	James Cahill

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Dimensions	15.6 × 24 cm
by	James Cahill
format	Hardback
Language	English
Pages	368
publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Year Published	2025-2-27
Imprint	Sceptre
Publication City/Country	London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10	1399716182
About The Author	James Cahill has worked in the art world and academia for fifteen years. His debut novel, Tiepolo Blue, was shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, and his writing has been published in Artforum, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the London Review of Books, the Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement and the Daily Telegraph, among others. James divides his time between London and Los Angeles.
	James Cahill gets better and better. I really loved The Violet Hour, trying, and failing, to ration myself rather than reading in a greedy rush. Its evocation of the wonders of art and the dehumanising horrors of the art industry are spot on, of course, but as a novelist what I really admired was his narrative structure and sly choreography of his principle characters. On one level it functions as a highbrow whodunnit, and grippingly so, but it's much more than that, building into a meditation on mortality and the unreliable consolations of art, love and materialism. I can't wait to see what he does next
Other text	A thrilling story of power, money and the struggle to live an authentic life in the international art world.From the acclaimed author of Tiepolo Blue.