The Underpainter - Couverture souple

Urquhart, Jane

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140269738 ISBN 13 : 9780140269734

Editeur : Penguin Books, 1998

Synopsis

Book by Urquhart Jane

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“Her language is pure, dazzling in its precision, like the etching of ice on glass.”
–Globe and Mail

“A painterly masterwork...poignant in each of its several landscapes and subtle in tracing the mingled nuances of love and pain.”
–Kirkus Reviews

“The detached eye of the narrator never falters, though passion hums beneath the surface like some vast primeval beast beneath the ice.”
–The Independent (U.K.)

“Writing with the eye of a painter, Urquhart transforms the energy of the world into enduring literature.”
–Kitchener-Waterloo Record

“Urquhart is one of Canada’s most accomplished and interesting writers.”
–Edmonton Journal

“Original and dazzling, radiant and quietly perceptive, Urquhart’s new novel delights the senses even as it astonishes the mind....”
–London Free Press

“A lyrical novel with a deep, unsentimental connection to ordinary life...[Urquhart’s] language is vivid enough to take your breath away.”
–Boston Globe

“Urquhart explores the ability to love and the failure to love; the visual pictures and images of humanity beneath the surfaces on which art is created. The Underpainter is a savory read.”
–Flare

“Urquhart’s evocation of time and place shimmers with clarity....”
–Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Urquhart has written a novel whose narrative power matches her delicate artistry with words...lodges in the mind and heart forever.”
–Montreal Gazette

“Richly textured prose, and an intricate, many layered structure.”
–Sunday Times (U.K.)

“A rich, multifaceted story, skillfully told.”
–San Francisco Chronicle
From the Hardcover edition.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0140269738
• ISBN 13: 9780140269734
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368