Paint it Black

Author(s): Janet Fitch

Fiction.

Josie came to Los Angeles to escape her run-down family with its sad history of trouble and abuse; when she met Michael - brilliant, musical, handsome - she thought she'd found her first chance for real love and a new life. But Michael, despite a youth filled with every material advantage, was an emotional trainwreck, with an apathetic, distant father and a mother who stayed all too close.

As the novel begins, Josie has just learned of Michael's suicide. Alone, grieving, in shock, Josie is trying to understand what happened when Michael's mother Meredith, a renowned concert pianist, accuses Josie of causing her son's death. As the two women circle one another from the extreme poles of their lives - Meredith secluded in a mansion in the hills, Josie scraping an existence from low-budget film roles, nude modeling for art classes, and a circle of friends from the seedy world of L.A.'s underground music scene - they embark on a strange partnership that is equal parts mistrust and blind need. First published 2006.

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For WHITE OLEANDER 'Extraordinary ... Her prose is full of startling images, snippets of poetry and one magnificent, blisteringly angry 'found' poem. This highly impressive debut takes on all the big themes' OBSERVER 'Hard-hitting, compelling and brilliantly written' COSMOPOLITAN 'Tangled, complex and extraordinarily written' OBSERVER

Janet Fitch's first novel, WHITE OLEANDER, was a No. 1 Bestseller, an Oprah's Book Club selection, and was made into a feature film starring Michele Pfeiffer. Janet Fitch lives in Los Angeles.

General Fields

  • : 9781860499708
  • : Little, Brown Book Group
  • : Virago Press Ltd
  • : March 2007
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Janet Fitch
  • : Paperback
  • : 0
  • : 813.54
  • : 400
  • : Modern fiction
  • : N/A