THE UNDERPAINTER
by Urquhart, Jane
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0771086644
- ISBN 13
- 9780771086649
- Seller
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
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
- W. Fraser Sandercombe (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 224325
- Title
- THE UNDERPAINTER
- Author
- Urquhart, Jane
- Illustrator
- John Collier;
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0771086644
- ISBN 13
- 9780771086649
- Publisher
- McClelland and Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1997
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- canadian author; minimalist; painting; painter; american; first 1st world war one 1 i; rockwell kent; new york; lake superior; france;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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W. Fraser Sandercombe
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