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Giacometti’s Last Ride follows the Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti in Paris during his last years. Once he meets Caroline, the “working girl” who becomes his lover and final model, Giacometti’s life shifts into high gear. Bart Schneider gives readers a cellular sense of Giacometti in his body, with all his kinks and mannerisms, as he works with unrelenting intensity in his legendary atelier, and falls in mad love with Caroline. Schneider also captures the milieu of Paris in the early 1960s, with Giacometti’s friends—Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, Pablo Picasso, and the beguiling Eli Lotar—spilling through his life. The novel is enhanced with eighteen works by Chester Arnold, whose prodigious craft and pure painting add deeper dimension to Giacometti’s ride. Arnold’s portraits of the artist and depictions of his atelier already have the feel of classics.This volume is the second collaboration between Arnold and Schneider, after their much-loved 2022 book,The Daily Feast.