The Passionate Journey Author:Irving Stone This is Irving Stone's first novel about a painter since the publication of Lust for Life. In a very genuine sense John Noble's tempestuous passage from darkness to self-expression, with all of the artist's agony and ecstasy revealed, is the American counterpart of Vincent Van Gogh's deeply moving life story. All during his youth and early man... more »hood John Noble was driven by a compelling hunger, a hunger he could neither grasp nor define. When, ultimately, he learned the object of his hunger: hunger for essence, for universality, for God, he then began his passionate journey in sear h of the God head, the means whereby he might bring God down out of the nebulous skies and into his trouble spirit, his hungry heart, his passionate art.« less