Froy, J: The Art School Dance -

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Résumé :
A memoir of the life of an art student in the 1970s. The second volume of John Froy's memoir.

Reconstructed from old diaries and letters, and written in the present tense, we endure with the author the lostness, the self-mistrust, the confusion of those painful years between the ages of 18 and 22. We look over his shoulder and ponder the hand that life has dealt him, with all its complications and compensations. The memoir is also a chronicle of the times, with their brand new freedom to hitch-hike around Europe, throw oneself into sexual relationships and sample mood-altering drugs. What would today's teenagers make of the books he surrounds himself with, and the hours and hours he spends on his art, looking intently and with deep seriousness at what is before him, and trying to record it - as, in fear and trembling, he finds his way towards his future self - the adult he will become? (Jane Serraillier)