Description

A moving, vividly made book in the late writer of The Basketball Diaries. When poet, diarist, and artist Jim Carroll died in September 2009, he was putting the finishing touches on the powerful work of fiction. The Petting Zoo shows the tale of Billy Wolfram, an enigmatic thirty- eight-year-old performer who has turned into a hot celebrity in the late-1980s Ny art world. Whilst the book starts, Billy, after watching a display of Velázquez pictures, is really humbled and impressed by their religious energy he undergoes an emotional breakdown and withdraws to his Chelsea attic.