LIVES OF THE ARTISTS, a new novel by Robert Clark, winner of both a PNBA Book Award for Fiction and Edgar Award, in which three young Americans, two of whom are aspiring young writers and the other a painter, leave Seattle for Florence at the end of the last century hoping to live the lives of artists and to find in Italy the happiness they could not find at home sold to Iris Tupholme, EIC of Harper Canada, Canadian Rights by agent Marly Rusoff.