
Feldman in Love
A Novel
Stephen Chance(Author)
Valley Press
Published on 29. January 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
262 pages
978-1-915606-71-6 (ISBN)
Description
1950s New York: a city alive with risk, both artistic and political. Against a backdrop of McCarthyite witch-hunts, the Rosenberg trial and the Korean War, two young outsiders - composer Morton Feldman and painter Philip Guston - form a friendship that will shape the course of their creative lives.
Part rivalry, part devotion and part creative necessity, their bond threatens to be both salvation and undoing. As nights stretch into mornings in cramped studios and downtown cafés, the work itself becomes a kind of battleground, where everything - wives, friends, health, reputation and self - is expendable, in search of the next breakthrough.
Published for Feldman's centenary, Feldman in Love is a lyrical, intimate novel about creation and longing, what it truly costs to make great art, and what we ultimately owe to one another when the last note has been played.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Driffield
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
416 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-915606-71-6 (9781915606716)
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Person
Stephen Chance is a writer, architect and musician. His architectural practice, Chance de Silva, is known for its collaborations with leading artists and composers, with projects featured on BBC Radio 3, in the Guardian, on Channel 4's Grand Designs, and across the architectural press. His first novel, The Alum Maker's Secret, was longlisted for the Bridport Prize. Originally from a northern steel-working family, Stephen now divides his time between London and Glaisdale.