Optic Nerve

Maria Gainza

earliest edition we have, 2019 Penguin Random House, 2019 224 pages

"The narrator of Optic Nerve is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life is the story of the paintings, and painters, who matter to her. Her intimate, digressive voice guides us through a gallery of moments that have touched her. In these pages, El Greco visits the Sistine Chapel and is appalled by Michelangelo's bodies. The mystery of Rothko's refusal to finish murals for the Seagram Buildi...

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Editions we hold

Optic Nerve edition · 2021 · Penguin Random House · 256 pages · 9781784707538
Optic Nerve edition · 2020 · Catapult · 208 pages · 9781646220021
Optic Nerve edition · 2019 · Penguin Random House · 224 pages · 9781787300279
Optic Nerve edition · 2019 · Catapult · 208 pages · 9781948226165
Optic Nerve edition · 2019 · Penguin Random House · 9781473549784

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