The Underpainter.
by URQUHART, Jane
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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Forest Knolls, California, United States
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Synopsis
In Rochester, New York, a seventy-five-year-old artist, Austin Fraser, is creating a new series of paintings recalling the details of his life and of the lives of those individuals who have affected him--his peculiar mother, a young Canadian soldier and china painter, a First World War nurse, the well-known American painter Rockwell Kent, and Sara, a waitress from the wilderness mining settlement of Silver Islet, Ontario, who became Austin?s model and mistress. Spanning more than seven decades, from the turn of the century to the mid-seventies, The Underpainter --in range, in the sheer power of its prose, and in its brilliant depiction of landscape and the geography of imagination--is Jane Urquhart 's most accomplished novel to date, with one of the most powerful climaxes in contemporary fiction.
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- Bookseller
- Skyline Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKB-5659
- Title
- The Underpainter.
- Author
- URQUHART, Jane
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- [Toronto]: McClelland & Stewart, [1997].
- Keywords
- URQUHART, Jane
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