Book Review: Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint

A story about giving your life to art and creating and how it can consume you, especially if your art comes alive. Isabelle is a young artist taken in by a brilliant artist, Vincent Rushkin. Rushkin isn’t what he seems to be. He becomes more abusive as their relationship deepens. The twisted relationship seeps out from the art studio to Isabelle’s friends and their lives, drawing them into Isabelle’s denial of reality and being used and abused for her art. The story jumps between now and twenty ...