The Belovéd Vagabond

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Henri Matisse, Walter Sickert and Vincent van Gogh. Paragot — vagabond, drunkard, violinist, once something else entirely — takes a boy out of a London gutter, names him Asticot, and teaches him the world from the roads of France. Locke was born in British Guiana and kept an architect's ledgers for a decade before his fiction took hold; the belo...