Lust for Life: The Novel of Vincent Van Gogh (The Modern Library, No. 11)

x, 489 pp. With a foreword by the author. A biographical novel about the famous painter Vincent Van Gogh. Lust for Life is Irving Stone's biographical novel about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh. Largely based on the letters Van Gogh wrote to his brother, Theo, the novel details the artist's difficult life, as well as describing the origins of many of his famous paintings, such as The Potato Eaters, Sunflowers, and others.