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Title: The Demon Room
Author: J. E. Reich
Narrator: Peter Ganim
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-09-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
There had been two demons in Modiglianis life. One was a fever and one was a woman. The Demon Room tells the story of the debauched and troubled artist Amedeo Modigliani through the eyes of Leo, his art dealer, friend, and rival. Consumed by the thought of his own demise, Modigliani throttles through life - and women - hoping to escape the demons that plague him. But when he stumbles into the arms of Jeanne, a young and struggling artist, his salvation might also be his undoing.
From the absinthe-soaked streets of 1920s Paris to the salons of the rich and famous, with an astounding voice, The Demon Room depicts a world where obsession, lust, and art go hand in hand, and where your downfall might also be your lasting achievement. Fiction writer J. E. Reich's lyrical, moving, and riveting debut is sure to grip you long after the last lines.
About the Author: J. E. Reich hails from Pittsburgh and received her MA in English Literature from Brooklyn College. Her writing has appeared in Armchair/Shotgun, Everyday Genius, Volume 1 Brooklyn, gigantic sequins, Plain China: The Best of Undergraduate Writing 2010, and other publications. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2010 and in 2012. A Brooklyn resident, she is a contributor at Thought Catalog and is working on her first novel.
Members Reviews:
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J.E. Reich is obscenely talented. This novella is one of those rare announcements of the arrival of an important new voice. With words heavy, freighted with meaning, layered with subtext, hinged with history and the aches of life, this author writes in a way that moves you, and the floor beneath you. Paradoxically, her words also flit like butterfly wings and charm like a sunlit stained-glass window. Her paragraphs are painted with the poetry of a lucid dream. With each sentence she performs literary alchemy and makes heaviness light.
I'd expected the writing to be superb. I've read many of her essays on Thought Catalog and come to expect fine writing from J.E. Reich. But this debut novella not only exceeded my expectations, it reached escape velocity, shirked gravity, and headed for the stars. It's really that damn good.
If you need a comparison, this book reminded me "Coming Through Slaughter," by Michael Ondaatje. That work was a literary portrait of early jazz legend Buddy Bolden, a recounting of early 20th Century New Orleans, and a framing of a man in the midst of his fleeting moment at the forefront of culture, at a time that saw the birth of jazz. In the telling of his story, Ondaatje also showed how a tremendous talent might be devoured by madness in service to his art. In similarly satisfying ways and with equal care, J.E. Reich renders a portrait of Amedeo Modigliani.
The story examines the life of the painter, but not in a biographical way, instead it's told as an emotional first-person meditation from the perspective of the famous early 20th century artist's patron/protector. From this intimate proximity we meet the man, "Modi," and we consider the relationships of the artist, the notions of madness, muses, marriages, unions, fidelities, lust, love, loss, genius, commerce, and community; together they all function as facets by which to glimpse the man, the artist.
