Nat Tate

Name: Nat Tate
Rating: 3.8 (219 reviews)
Author: William Boyd

Authors: William Boyd
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Type: Novel
Genres: General Fiction
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Rating: 3.8 based on 219 reviews
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Print length: 67 pages (Hardcover)

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About the book

Artist Nathwell Tate was born in 1928 in Union Beach, New Jersey. On January 8 1960 he contrived to round up and burn almost his entire output of Abstract Expressionism. Four days later he killed himself. This book offers an account of Tate's life and work which can be seen either as straight art biography or as fiction. It is an investigation of the blurry line between the invented and the authentic, the wholly false and the utterly real.

About the author

William Boyd

William Boyd, a Ghanaian-born author, was raised in both Ghana and Nigeria before pursuing his education at the prestigious universities of Nice, Glasgow, and Oxford. With seven novels under his ...