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THE UNDERPAINTER

by Urquhart, Jane

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Toronto: M&S, 1997.. 8vo. 340 pp. Cream boards. A touch of rubbing to extremities, else near fine in like dustwrapper..

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
About Books, ABAC CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
6926
Title
THE UNDERPAINTER
Author
Urquhart, Jane
Book Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Toronto: M&S, 1997.
Keywords
Canadian Literature, First Edition
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Fine
A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Dustwrapper
Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
Rubbing
Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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