The Underpainter
by Jane Urquhart
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0747535213
- ISBN 13
- 9780747535218
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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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- Title
- The Underpainter
- Author
- Jane Urquhart
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0747535213
- ISBN 13
- 9780747535218
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- contemporary, fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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