Still Life: The man who spent fifty years telling the world what to see — and never once let anyone look at him.

Victor Hale has spent fifty years telling the world what to see. At seventy, he has never once let anyone look at him.

When a retired Yale professor with five books and a fortress of opinions agrees to sit for a self-taught portrait painter in a Maine boathouse, he expects to evaluate the artist. He doesn't expect to be seen — completely, patiently, and without mercy — by a man who has spent forty-two years learning that attention is the only form of love that doesn't lie.

Still Life is a novel about the courage it takes to become a subject, at any age, in anyone's hands.