The Horse's Mouth (New York Review Books Classics)

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The Horses Mouth the third and most celebrated volume of Joyce Carys First Trilogy is perhaps the finest novel ever written about an artist. Its painter hero the charming and larcenous Gulley Jimson has an insatiable genius for creation and a no less remarkable appetite for destruction. Is he a great artist? a has-been? or an exhausted drunken neer-do-well? He is without doubt a visionary and as he criss-crosses London in search of money and inspiration the world as seen though his eyes appears with a newly outrageous and terrible beauty.