The Connoiseur A Novel Author:Evan S. Connell, Jr. With a marvelous concreteness and delicacy, the author gives us the very instant in which a man is seized by art-and, through this man, makes us live the experience of becoming a passionate collector, a connoisseur. — Here, encapsulated and illumined, is a complete experience. As the man is taken over by his joyful and frightening obsession, sees... more »awing between exhilaration and his growing awareness of bizarre enslavement, the reader enters the mind, the emotions, and the days of that strange petitioner and lover: The Connoisseur.« less