Pieces of Glass: An Artoire - Hardcover

"a writer of effortless dexterity and a true, unaffected originality...The story he tells cuts right to the bone." -- The New Yorker

"Warmly engaging 'Artoir' is PIeces of Glass by John Sacret Young. Wonderfully readable and very smart of art." -- Joyce Carol Oates

"Young writes so well that his memoir works as a novel. He brings to life real people in dramatic situations, with indelible grace and the restless energy of emotions that even the passage of time cannot quell." -- Elmore Leonard "Young's artoir ultimately succeeds because he is able to reconnect with the wonderment and pure joy that comes from seeing a painting for the first time, from connecting with a work of art produced by another human being, and relishing in its inherent qualities." -- American Fine Art magazine

Award-winning Hollywood screenwriter and author John Sacret Young embraces and appreciates art, particularly American art and Modernism, and has collected and written about it for much of his life. In Pieces of Glass, Young mixes the "art" side of his life with a true memoir to create a unique Artoire in which he explores the profound effect it has had on him, his work, and his existence. From Rothko to John Marin, Diebenkorn to Vermeer, and Rockwell to Charles Burchfield, Young discovers that paintings, drawings, sketches and even chalk on an old garage wall have helped "paint" him into the person he is today