Inventing van Gogh

Patrick Stone, a contemporary painter, is hired to forge this final masterpiece-and finds himself squaring off, across the years, with van Gogh himself

The result is a compelling mystery about the obsession to create and the fine line that separates truth from myth

"Like a van Gogh painting, Dietz's story is a gorgeous example of excess-one that remakes reality with broad, well-chosen brush strokes. At evening's end, we're left with the author's resounding opinions on art and artifice, and provoked by his constant query into which is greater: van Gogh's art, or his violent myth" ~ Phoenix New Times

"Dietz's writing is never simple. It is always brilliant. Shaded, compressed, direct, lucid-he frames his subject with a remarkable understanding of painting as a physical experience" ~ Tucson Citizen