Publication
Square Fish (2019), Edition: Reprint, 464 pages
Status
Available
Call number
Description
The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh defined both brothers' lives. As a confidant, champion, sympathizer, and friend, Theo financially and emotionally supported his older brother as the artistic but troubled Vincent struggled to find his path in life as both a painter and a man. Throughout that struggle, the brothers shared everything - swapping stories of lovers and friends, successes and disappointments, dreams and ambitions. Drawing on the 658 letters Vincent wrote to Theo during his lifetime, Deborah Heiligman weaves a meticulously researched tale of those two intertwined lives and the extraordinary love that fueled them.
Physical description
464 p.; 8.88 inches
Awards
A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book (Nonfiction — 2017)
Boston Globe–Horn Book Award (Winner — Nonfiction — 2017)
BCCB Blue Ribbon Book (Nonfiction — 2017)
Golden Kite Award (Winner — 2018)
Printz Award (Honor — 2018)
CYBILS Awards (Winner — 2017)
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction (Nominee — 2018)
CCBC Choices (2018)
Nerdy Book Award (2017)
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: Teens (Nonfiction — 2017)
New York Public Library Best Books: For Teens (Nonfiction — 2017)
OYAN Book Rave (2018)
Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List (Youth — 2018)