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5.0

Invaluable as a resource and insight into Lowry’s personal chaos and ecstasy, the many sides of the life and life’s work of a man with more than enough love and never enough luck.

From a (very) late letter to a younger confidante and admirer: “Do you know which stars are which and what bird is flying over your head and what flower blossoming? If you don’t the anguish of not knowing is a very valid field for the artist. Moreover when you learn something it’s a good thing to repossess the position of your original ignorance”
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