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THE UNDER PAINTER.

by Urquhart, Jane

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TORONTO: M.&S. 1997. Fine. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Complimentary Copy. (A specially printed label bearing the name of the firm's president & chairman of the board is afixed to the fornt endpaper.) Fine in dj. Governor-General award winner. .

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 (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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