Tuesday Nights In 1980

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Synopsis

“An intoxicating Manhattan fairy tale…As affecting as it is absorbing. A thrilling debut.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“A vital, sensuous, edgy, and suspenseful tale of longing, rage, fear, compulsion, and love.” —Booklist (starred review)

A transcendent debut novel that follows a critic, an artist, and a desirous, determined young woman as they find their way—and ultimately collide—amid the ever-evolving New York City art scene of the 1980s.

Welcome to SoHo at the onset of the eighties: a gritty, not-yet-gentrified playground for artists and writers looking to make it in the big city. Among them: James Bennett, a synesthetic art critic for the New York Times whose unlikely condition enables him to describe art in profound, magical ways, and Raul Engales, an exiled Argentinian painter running from his past and the Dirty War that has enveloped his country. As the two men ascend in the downtown arts scene, dual tragedies strike, and each is faced with a loss that acutely affects his relationship to life and to art. It is not until they are inadvertently brought together by Lucy Olliason—a small town beauty and Raul’s muse—and a young orphan boy sent mysteriously from Buenos Aires, that James and Raul are able to rediscover some semblance of what they’ve lost.

As inventive as Jennifer Egan's A Visit From The Goon Squad and as sweeping as Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings, Tuesday Nights in 1980 boldly renders a complex moment when the meaning and nature of art is being all but upended, and New York City as a whole is reinventing itself. In risk-taking prose that is as powerful as it is playful, Molly Prentiss deftly explores the need for beauty, community, creation, and love in an ever-changing urban landscape.

Chapters

  • Tuesday Nights 01 open

    Duration: 30s
  • Tuesday Nights 02 prologue

    Duration: 15min
  • Tuesday Nights 03 Portrait of Manhattan

    Duration: 03min
  • Tuesday Nights 04 Our Year

    Duration: 01h04min
  • Tuesday Nights 05 Already Famous

    Duration: 01h01min
  • Tuesday Nights 06 A Girl in NY

    Duration: 54min
  • Tuesday Nights 07 Abnormal Circumstances

    Duration: 27min
  • Tuesday Nights 08 Painting is Dead

    Duration: 24min
  • Tuesday Nights 09 No More Midnight

    Duration: 22min
  • Tuesday Nights 10 The Artist Leaps

    Duration: 30min
  • Tuesday Nights 11 The Show Must Go On

    Duration: 21min
  • Tuesday Nights 12 Lucy's Yellow

    Duration: 23min
  • Tuesday Nights 13 Portrait of the end of an era

    Duration: 03min
  • Tuesday Nights 14 The Rising Sun

    Duration: 33min
  • Tuesday Nights 15 The Missing Boy and the Lost Girl

    Duration: 25min
  • Tuesday Nights 16 It Isn't Enough to be Beautiful

    Duration: 38min
  • Tuesday Nights 17 Fuck Sunsets

    Duration: 36min
  • Tuesday Nights 18 There's nothing to be done about the love

    Duration: 07min
  • Tuesday Nights 19 Minus any God

    Duration: 22min
  • Tuesday Nights 20 Fun

    Duration: 43min
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