Bluebeard (book)
Kurt Vonnegut's
Bluebeard was written in
1988 and describes the end of fictional Abstract Expressionist painter Rabo Karabekian, who has a secret tucked away in his potato barn. It takes the arrival of a young woman, Circe Berman, to make Karabekian reveal his life story, from his exodus from Armenia to California to his place to in the art world to his final retirement on Long Island. One of Vonnegut's later novels, the final revelation of Karabekian's secret is one of the most moving moments in all of Vonnegut's work.