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Title	:	The Horse's Mouth (The First Trilogy #3)
Author	:	Joyce Cary
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	October 31st 1999 by NYRB Classics (first published 1944)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. Classics. Art. Humor

The Horse's Mouth (The First Trilogy #3)

Joyce Cary

Paperback | Pages: 432 pages

Rating: 4.01 | 1244 Users | 148 Reviews

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The Horse's Mouth, the third and most celebrated volume of Joyce Cary's First Trilogy, is perhaps the finest novel ever written about an artist. Its painter hero, the charming and larcenous Gulley Jimson, has an insatiable genius for creation and a no less remarkable appetite for destruction. Is he a great artist? a has-been? or an exhausted, drunken ne'er-do-well? He is without doubt a visionary, and as he criss-crosses London in search of money and inspiration the world as seen though his eyes appears with a newly outrageous and terrible beauty.

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Original Title:	The Horse's Mouth
ISBN:	0940322196 (ISBN13: 9780940322196)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The First Trilogy #3

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The flow of descriptive language on display here is overwhelming. The main character of the novel is an artist, and as if that weren't bad enough, a modern artist, as he, Gully Jimson, might say. The prose describing the art and more importantly the thought behind the art is staggeringly beautiful. Yes I was mentally staggering around my living room as I read passages like this one on a sunset, "Under the cloudbank. Sun was in the bank. Streak of salmon below. Salmon trout above soaking into

Gulley Jimson is one of the great literary creations, and as many times as I've read this novel, Gulley still appears as unique and unpredictable as he did the first time I read it. Joyce Cary's novels aren't as popular as they once were, but his First Trilogy remains a timeless masterpiece. I read the series backwards, it seems, for this is the third (and my favorite) novel. It's one of the finest descriptions of an artist and the artistic process ever written, in my opinion. Oh, and as an

I love this book. My third time reading it. And this time I read it with a painter friend of mine, who reminds me a bit of Gulley Jimson actually. Like Gulley, my friend paints because he has to, is compelled to, if he hasn't got a paint brush in his hand, he's still painting in his mind. A beautiful, powerfully moving, very funny, utterly original book about art and the artist.

The painter Gulley Jimson is a soundrel, and no mistake. He would not be judged either a good man or a success, yet he has a talent and an appetite for living.Joyce Cary's trilogy was good, better, and this, the third book, best for me. At the same time, all three now beg to be read again--the different points of view (Sara, then Tom, then Gulley), filled in by each character's separate inclinations, prejudices and intentions, would illuminate especially Sara's story, Herself Surprised.None of

This 1944 novel, the third in a trilogy (although it works as a stand-alone) follows the adventures of impecunious artist Gulley Jimson who exploits everyone he meets and is one of fictions most obnoxious characters. Recently released from prison (personally Id have thrown away the key) he preys on his acquaintances and reflects, in long rambling tirades, on art, the creative process, love, society and life in general all to no purpose. Its supposed to be a comic novel, but where the comedy was

3.5*Gulley Jimson was quite a character but on the whole I felt that the humor in this book was more of the sort which made me smile inwardly than the sort which make me laugh aloud. Jimson indubitably was an artist but one who had gone off the rails sometime in his past. I loved the way that he was always describing the sky and clouds in terms of colors & shapes. What I found more melancholy was the fact that it seemed to me it was clear to him that his best work was behind him but he

Gulley Jimson is a starving artist in the 1930s (maybe the 40s), who consistently borrows and steals money from those around him to help keep him fed and with art supplies. Not only does he seem to have trouble paying anyone back but he himself seems to find his actions reasonable at all times because they are in the name of art. With his constant lack of decorum and respect for other's feelings and property, Gulley manages to constantly get him self into situations of questionable legality,