Broken Colors | 
 enlarge | Author: Michele Zackheim
Publisher: Europa Editions
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 215600
Media: Paperback
Pages: 300
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 1933372370
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781933372372
ASIN: 1933372370
Publication Date: October 1, 2007
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"A profoundly original, beautifully written work, so emotionally accurate that it tears at the heart. I read it without stopping."-Gerald Stern Sophie Marks' path to artistic and personal fulfillment takes her from World War II England to postwar Paris and the Italian countryside. She leaves Europe in 1967 and spends the next two decades in the American Southwest. Acclaimed at last as an artist, she returns to England to confront the hidden memories of her childhood and test the possibilities of a renewed love, a passion ripened by maturity.
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 Enriching tale of an artist's life April 27, 2008
Good Show (Cleveland, Ohio)
When I first started Broken Colors, I was thrown off by the almost technical descriptions of paint colors (I just couldn't imagine them easily) and by some stiff dialog in the opening chapters. I'm so glad I stuck with the story, as it read like a biography, revealing layer upon layer of a woman artist's life, through childhood, war, death, remembrance, love and loss. It's all viewed through a visual artist's lens (the multi-talented Zackheim is a painter as well as a writer); somehow I imagined Georgia O'Keefe as an inspiration for the Sophie Marks character (even if just a flicker). I couldn't put this down, it was one of the most enjoyable books I've read in a long time.
 An Artist's Obsessive Existence March 7, 2008
Helene Aylon (NYC)
There is something about the days of an artist that differ from the days of others. This book examines that phenomenon within the prism of colors. It is wistful, yet glorious. Urgent , yet spacious.
 artist lives February 7, 2008
Sue Moran (California)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
A novel with little story and even less character development. The only thing that kept me going was the author's frequent references to art and the ideas of an artist's life.
Broken Colors is the one-of-a-kind tale of a shining life's multifaceted journey. February 6, 2008
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
Broken Colors is the novel of a talented female artist who must come to grips with the difficult realities of life. Born in England during the first world war and raised by her bohemian grandparents, Sophie Marks learns how to pour her soul into works of art; yet creativity alone cannot bring her fulfillment. After the terrible devastation of the second world war, she flees to Paris and tries to start over. She forms a relationship with a talented Italian sculptor; yet after years pass, what they had gradually crumbles away. She takes flight again, this time to the American Southwest. Brilliant yet isolated, it takes the arrival of someone from her former life to spur her to confront memories of her childhood in England and seek love renewed amid her maturity. Emotional, passionate, and introspective, Broken Colors is the one-of-a-kind tale of a shining life's multifaceted journey.
The uphill struggle of an artist December 23, 2007
Nikolas Kozloff (New York)
This portrait depicts Sophie, an aspiring artist growing up in the interwar period in Europe. The novel however spans several decades and two continents with a vivid sense of place and time. A moving tale of what it takes to make it in the art world, Broken Colors is a must read for young artists. However, most any reader may identify with Sophie's personal sacrifice, determination and spirit.
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