What happens when the life you are living is no longer the life you imagined? When you are well and truly stuck? A darkly comic tale of longing and legacy, Balloon Dog, the fourth novel from best-selling ghostwriter Daniel Paisner, prompts readers to consider what it means to leave a mark and what it takes to be swept up in the same currents that move almost everyone else. A brazen art heist pushes our protagonists to reflect on the choices they've made-and the ones that have been made for them. Set in the near- present, the story turns on the ill-conceived theft of a high-end Jeff Koons sculpture, lifted in plain sight from its perch beside a luxurious mountain home in Park City, Utah, and follows the musings, misadventures, and meeting of minds of a Long Island writer in midlife crisis and the art thief behind the ill conception. Balloon Dog poses two central questions: Is the transformative power of art enough to lift us from our days? And what is art, anyway?
- | Author: Daniel Paisner
- | Publisher: Koehler Books
- | Publication Date: Jun 21, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 290 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
- | ISBN-10: 164663697X
- | ISBN-13: 9781646636976
- Author:
- Daniel Paisner
- Publisher:
- Koehler Books
- Publication Date:
- Jun 21, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 290 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Fiction
- ISBN-10:
- 164663697X
- ISBN-13:
- 9781646636976