Sep 12, 2009
The Great Man
The Great Man: A Novel is a 2007 novel by American author Kate Christensen. It won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, beating nearly 350 other submissions and earning Christensen the $15,000 top prize.[1] The story takes place five years after the death, at 78, of celebrated painter Oscar Feldman, the "great man" of the title. Two competing biographers, both working to document the life and times of a man who made his fortune painting nude women, turn for information to the women who had shared his life: his wife, his mistress, and his sister, who is also a painter.
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Jagmohan Singh
LUDHIANA: I do not remember the last time I went to a poetry reading session and that too a Punjabi poetry reading session. I spent a good part of the day listening to one young poet after another rendering their poems –someone ready to engage the audience and some in a matter of fact way. Contemporary themes resounded in verse after verse, though there it was dominated by love and Heer Ranjah stories. I was a little surprised that there was little political awareness amongst the young poets and they did not indulge in satire at the present state of affairs.