Toronto, ON, Canada: Mcclelland & Stewart. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Printing. Hardcover. 0771086644 . About new book, unmarked but for small erasure shadow to ffep. in unmarked dj with governor-general's award sticker. .

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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: B-Line Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 10490
Title: The Underpainter
Author: Urquhart, Jane
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Printing
ISBN 10: 0771086644
ISBN 13: 9780771086649
Publisher: Mcclelland & Stewart
Place of Publication: Toronto, ON, Canada
Date Published: 1997
Keywords: 0771086644, NEW, YORK, FICTION, STATE, ARTISTS, GENERAL
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction Canada;

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