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Widow Basquiat: A Love Story (2001)

by Jennifer Clement(Favorite Author)

4.07 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0553419919 (ISBN13: 9780553419917)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Broadway Books

review 1: I love this book. It is a poem. It is about strength. It is about feminism. It is about marketing. It is about politics. It is about childhood. And yes, it's about an iconic artist and one of his lovers but it's really about so much more if you choose to dig deep and see it. This is not for everyone. Some readers who like a straightforward narrative will most likely be discouraged with the mixed voices in this fictional biography/memoir of Basquiat and Suzanne Mallouk. But I think Clement captures the voices with an authenticity and care that may be only attributed to her personal ties to Suzanne Mallouk, the fictional widow. Living a drug and sex -fuelled life of chaos in the New York and International art scene, the colorful characters come to life while we see the real... moreity of AIDS and overdoses and other STDs at the edges of the frenetic lifestyles. Jennifer Clement exposes the vulnerability of such large personalities without making them caricatures and you can see beauty in the tragedy. I think of a flower growing out of a crack in a dirty and dilapidated sidewalk. I finished it and just wanted to read it again.Provided by Publisher
review 2: Jennifer Clement has written a poetic account of the love life of Suzanne Mallouk and Jean-Michel Basquiat in her novel “Widow Basquiat, A love Story.” Mallouk and Jean-Michel are artists in their own right. Suzanne and Jean-Michel shared a turbulent love, drug and artistic life. The text does not read like a novel – more of poetic flashes of incidents of life.Their world is one of familiar names such as Keith Haring, Madonna, and Andy Warhol among others. It is raw and sometimes hard to read. This biography confuses and mystifies the reader. Ms. Clement – who personally fits into the story, takes her readers through accounts of the good, creative and sad side of her subjects’ lives.The timeliest part of this read was the Michael Stewart story . . . certainly let this reader realize that some things never seem to change.I won this book through Goodreads First Reads program. I do not know the author. 3 stars less

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