THE UNDER PAINTER.
by Urquhart, Jane
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Santa Monica, 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
- Waverley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15249
- Title
- THE UNDER PAINTER.
- Author
- Urquhart, Jane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- TORONTO: M.&S. 1997
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- Modern Fiction/jane Urquhart/canadian Literature/204
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- List204;
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