The Uncannily Strange and Brief Life of Amedeo Modigliani

The life of the painter Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) was chaotic and tragically brief. Spanning the last months of Modigliani’s life, conjuring up the strange workings of the painter’s troubled and often drug-fuelled mind and its expression in his paintings, this novel succeeds in conveying something of the intense artistic life of Paris in the first decades of the twentieth century.