From Sea to Stormy Sea: 17 Stories Inspired by Great American Paintings

by Lawrence Block Narrated by Matt Godfrey, Xe Sands

Overview

In the third installment of his acclaimed anthology series, master of crime fiction Lawrence Block has gathered together the best talent from popular fiction to produce an anthology of short stories based on masterpieces of American art.



Seventeen stories by seventeen brilliant writers, inspired by seventeen paintings. That was the formula for Lawrence Block's two groundbreaking anthologies, In Sunlight or in Shadow and Alive in Shape and Color, and it's on glorious display here once again in From Sea to Stormy Sea.



This time the paintings are exclusively the work of American artists, and the roster includes Harvey Dunn, John Steuart Curry, Reginald Marsh, Thomas Hart Benton, Helen Frankenthaler, Winslow Homer, Rockwell Kent, Grant Wood, Childe Hassam, and Andy Warhol. Among the star-studded lineup of writers you'll find Jerome Charyn, Jane Hamilton, Christa Faust, John Sandford, Sara Paretsky, Walter Mosley, Charles Ardai, Barry Malzberg, and Janice Eidus.



Contains mature themes.

Editorial Reviews

Associated Press

Since the writers he’s chosen tend to specialize in crime and genre fiction, the stories are chock-full of loners, losers and cynics who get to say snappy lines.

Shelf Awareness

A remarkable gallery show. For this imagination-firing anthology, Lawrence Block asked writers to use a celebrated American painting as a launchpad for a short story.

USA Today [Praise for In Sunlight Or In Shadow]

This absolutely superb anthology starts out with two advantages: a true legend at the helm in crime writer Lawrence Block, and a fascinating concept. Every story is superlative.

San Francisco Chronicle [Praise for In Sunlight Or In Shadow]

For anyone who has puzzled over the vividly evocative works of the beloved Edward Hopper, this little volume is the perfect gift. Short stories by 17 writers dramatically start where the paintings leave off.

Booklist [Praise for Alive in Shape and Color]

An imaginative collection bristling with surprises. Block has masterminded another delectably provocative union of art and suspense.

Michael Dirda

If a picture is worth a thousand words, any of Edward Hopper’s paintings of American loneliness is worth an entire short story. Ekphrasis—seeing a story in a picture—was seldom so much fun.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940177282602
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	03/23/2021
Edition description:	Unabridged

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