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Van Gogh Book – Conversations with Vincent Van Gogh

If you could ask Vincent van Gogh one question, what would it be? Author Simon Parke takes this approach in his recent book Conversations with Vincent Van Gogh as he interviews Van Gogh asking questions about his family, his life and his work. We recently had the pleasure of reading this book as well as listening to the audio book Conversations with Vincent Van Gogh. Unlike other Van Gogh biographies, this book is unique in that Van Gogh’s responses in the conversation are taken directly from passages in the letters he wrote to his brother Theo and others throughout his life. And although Van Gogh died 120 years ago, the dialogue between Parke and Van Gogh make it feel as if he were alive today. The book brings the reader’s attention to not only the talent, as is common, but the humanity of the man who lived his life “sorrowful but rejoicing.”

The audio recording, narrated by Andy Havill and Simon Parke, puts the listener in the same room with both Van Gogh and Parke and gives life to Van Gogh’s words. Hearing the voice with Van Gogh’s Dutch accent, as created by the reader, makes the conversation seem even more realistic as if it was taken from one of today’s talk shows. Both informative and entertaining, this book provides unique insight into the life of one of the greatest artists who ever lived. Conversations with Vincent Van Gogh is available from White Crow Books; read more about it here:

http://whitecrowbooks.com/books/page/conversations_with_vincent_van_gogh/

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