Lust for Life by Irving Stone

Walking through the streets of Paris, the young Vincent van Gogh did not feel that he was in his place here. He struggled with poverty all the time and had his heart broken more than once.

The book "Lust for Life" is written with sharp insight and sincere emotions. It allows us to trace the crippled life of the artist — critical disappointments and mental problems, poverty and alienation. However, in spite of everything, Van Gogh achieved incredible creative elevation, which turned him from a suffering artist into one of the most famous and dear artists to all of us.

Irving Stone is an American writer. He worked in the genre, which he called "biographical novel". In these works, Stone talks about the lives of famous historical figures, intersperses biography with a fictional story, revealing the psychology and personal life of the characters.