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ISBN: 1 84659 004 3
Publication: 7 April 2006
Format: 13 x 20 cm
Edition: Paperback
Pages: 256pp
Price: £8.99

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About the Author
Jasper Joffe is a painter and novelist. He was born in the US in 1975 and moved to England when he was eight. He studied Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford. He has had solo exhibitions in London, Rome, Milan and Brno; his work is also in the Saatchi collection.

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Water

Jasper Joffe

Water

Nathaniel Water is a doodling, neurotic, self-obsessed young British artist. His career is on the up, but his love life has taken a nosedive. Bored, he proposes marriage to his beautiful Slovak girlfriend, Jelena, with whom he fights constantly. But then he meets Harriet, a curator from Berlin ...

Can Water find happiness? Or is he caught in a downward spiral of nihilism and endless art openings? Delve in to this barking tale of love, family foibles and fame to find out.

'Surprisingly readable - the frivolity of a youthful modern-times columnist in the culture section of one of the Sundays, combined with a sort of egotistical nastiness and a sad interest in the crappier aspects of the art world somehow results in a page turner.' Matthew Collings


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Water will be launched in London at Sartorial Contemporary Art gallery on Tuesday 25th April. The book launch and private view will give readers a rare chance to see how 34 artists respond to Water by producing work from the fictional artist Nathaniel Water's 'oeuvre'.

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Reviews
'A sort of absurdist, amoral fable ... Over time I grew rather fond of the conceited young rogue. There is something exquisitely tragic about Water's life, a repetitive parade of posh restaurants, press views and disinterested flings. Ultimately, he's a tad boring - not something you could say about the novel he stars in.'

- Richard Godwin, Literary Review

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Excerpts
Don't read this next bit too carefully. When you try and say anything general about art it always comes out dumb and easy to contradict. Perhaps you should even skip to Chapter One.

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