Type

Text

Type

Thesis

Advisor

Rosenblatt, Roger | Masnik, Julia | , . | Walker, Lou Ann.

Date

2017-08-01

Keywords

Creative writing

Department

Department of Creative Writing and Literature.

Language

en_US

Source

This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/11401/78333

Publisher

The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.

Format

application/pdf

Abstract

Art Objects is a novel that explores what happens when an artist couple’s best work is their children. Born into the New York art world of the late 70s, twins Odetta and Orion Griffiths-Larson are the gesso and rubber cement that hold their parents, Rose and Henry, together. Their birth was an epic happening attended by the artistic illuminati, and every milestone has been detailed publicly in downtown galleries. Many influential people, however, have concerns about Rose and Henry's use of the children. The twins’ grandparents protest, the couple’s loyal art critics flag, and Rose and Henry’s bonafide spouses have stakes as well. When they leave New York City for a sleepy seaside village, Rose and Henry think they will have a new start, but with intrusions coming from all directions—especially from their new small town community—they must learn to forge new conduits to each other, or they will be destined to be the versions of themselves already hanging on museum walls. | 270 pages

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