At a family picnic, 16-year-old Aksel's wild, beautiful mother is drowned while swimming, drunk, in a fast-flowing river. Aksel's father is unable to confront his wife's death and the family sinks int
Using Edvard Munch's own letters and diaries, those of his contemporaries and friends, and newspapers and journals of the time, this literary biography presents a picture of the artist as unsparing an
