Nat Tate by William Boyd

An American Artist 1928–1960

A mock-biographical portrait of a mid-century American painter charts his early promise, uneasy place among the Abstract Expressionists, and mounting self-doubt that drives him to destroy much of his work before disappearing. Through fabricated interviews, documents, and photographs, it blurs fact and fiction to satirize the art world’s mythmaking and the fragile construction of artistic identity.