Torture the Artist

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name = Torture the Artist
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author = Joey Goebel
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = MacCage Adams Publishing
release_date = 2004
media_type = Print (Hardback and Paperback)
pages = 250 pp
isbn = 978-1931561778
preceded_by = The Anomalies
followed_by = Commonwealth (novel)

Torture the Artist, published as "Vincent" outside of the US, is a novel by Joey Goebel published in 2004.

Plot summary

"Torture the Artist" tells a story about a young boy who is trapped in a troubled childhood with a promiscuous mother who brings home a variety of boyfriends, the young boy stands out from his brothers and sisters for being more artistic with writing and the way he thinks in general. A school focused on improving the artistic value in the world of today picks up a project focusing on assigning the young boy a manager who will alter events in his life to be depressing to inspire his mind to work artistically. Following many stressful events including his mother leaving him, many girlfriends bringing him heartache, and an attempted suicide, he finds himself and harlan his manager caught in the twisted and mob like scene of the company they are included in, after they try getting out, and vincent, the young boy, find out from a whore who he would later find to be his mother, about the tortured artist project. While in a mad dash for safety harlan, vincent and harlans new wife run across the country and stay in a hotel. one night in drunken mistake vincent and the wife, monica, have a drunken affair while harlan is gone. Harlan walks in, leaves and never comes back.

See also

*Joey Goebel
*The Anomalies

External links

* [http://therealjohnhood.com/bookem/massmarketmartyr.html Mass-Market Martyr] John Hood's Bully Magazine review of Torture the Artist
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/193156177X Torture the Artist on Amazon]
* [http://www.joeygoebel.com The author's website]