committed suicide Quotes

Soon the rumors fly that the Painter committed suicide, and Claudio’s grief gets tangled up with his confusion. Written with remarkable, sustained intensity, this novel tells how Claudio slowly sorts though his intense feelings and comes to an uneasy peace with the fact of his friend’s death.

A slight treatment of a boy’s reaction when an older friend, a painter, commits suicide. His friend had lived upstairs, where Claudio had visited him almost every day.