Arrogance: A Novel

In Joanna Scotts breakthrough novel Arrogance the Austrian artist Egon Schiele comes to prismatic life in a narrative that defies convention history and identity. A self-professed genius and student of August Klimt Scotts Schiele repeatedly challenges the boundaries of early twentieth-century Europe. Thrown in jail on charges of immorality Schieles Mephistophelean reputation only grows in stature until at the age of twenty-eight the artist dies in the Great Flu Pandemic. Told from a crosscurrent of voices viewpoints and times this stunning novel won Scott a nomination for the 1991 PEN/Faulkner Award.