{"product_id":"9781741750133-prochowniks-dream","title":"Prochownik's Dream","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eProchownik's Dream\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the inner life of an artist, torn between his obsession with his art and  his love of his wife and daughter. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat is true for one relationship, for one painting, is not true for  another. each possesses its own strange inevitability that resists us and we  can never finally know what it is we are doing until the work is finished. It  is as if the picture paints itself through us, the story tells itself through  us, has a larger existence of which we know nothing.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToni Powlett is  an artist in the grip of a crisis. Since the death of his father, Moniek  Prochownik, four years earlier, Toni has been at a creative standstill - until  Marina Golding, the wife of his former teacher and mentor, Robert Schwartz,  contacts him, and everything changes. Toni finds in Marina the perfect companion for his life in art and his creative energies are re-awakened.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Toni's  newfound inspiration and artistic energy come at the direct expense of his  relationship with his wife and daughter. The more dependent for his art he  becomes on Marina, the more potentially destructive become the tensions between  himself and his wife, Teresa. Toni's dilemma is how to reconcile the  transgressive nature of his imaginative life with the daily life of his family,  who he loves. Robert Schwartz's dying father, Theo, warns him not to confuse art  with life. But by what means is he to achieve such  clear-sightedness?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImmensely satisfying, \u003ci\u003eProchownik's Dream\u003c\/i\u003e is a work  of great subtlety, strength and intellect. Its examination of the artist at work  is complex and completely absorbing. But at its heart, very simply, it is a book  about love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40945473552481,"sku":"9781741750133","price":6.13,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/de54d00b54342d2071a36c99681b1256.png?v=1691782270","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781741750133-prochowniks-dream","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}