The Center of the World: A Novel of J. M. W. Turner and His Lost Painting

By Thomas Van Essen

Alternating between nineteenth-century England and present-day New York, this is the story of renowned British painter J. M. W. Turner and his circle of patrons and lovers. It is also the story of Henry Leiden, a middle-aged family man with a troubled marriage and a dead-end job, who finds his life transformed by his discovery of Turner's The Center of the World, a mesmerizing and unsettling painting of Helen of Troy that was thought to have been lost forever.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590515498
• ISBN13: 9781590515495
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Other Press (NY)
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.3"