Torture the Artist

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Torture the Artist

Author	Joey Goebel
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Novel
Publisher	MacCage Adams Publishing
Publication date	2004
Media type	Print (Hardback and Paperback)
Pages	250 pp
ISBN	978-1931561778
Preceded by	The Anomalies

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

[edit] 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. Fallowing many stressful events including his mother leaving him, many girlfriends bringing him heartache, and an attempt for 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.