Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1997. Book. Illus. by John Collier;. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo. 340 pp. Signed on the title page by Jane Urquhart. Beige boards decorated in gilt on the front panel and spine; headband. Wraparound dustjacket art by John Collier. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; aside from the author's signature, no interior markings. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; aside from the author's signature, no interior markings. Austin Fraser, born in 1894, is a modernist who relentlessly paints over his canvases, much as he tries to eradicate people from his life. Though he insists that he has forgone emotion and love, when he receives news of a women he once knew, he can no longer stop memories from encroaching..

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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: 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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