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The Jewel - Couverture rigide

Hegarty, Neil

 
9781789541809: The Jewel
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1789541808 ISBN 13 : 9781789541809
Editeur : Head of Zeus, 2019

Synopsis

At the heart of this moving and unusual novel is a strange painting by a woman who committed suicide rather than live with neglect and pain. Her final glowingly beautiful work was painted with a technique more usual for posters and banners, and not designed to last. She intended it as her shroud. It hangs in a Dublin gallery, and it is desired by a collector who is willing to pay to have it stolen. The thief is a disillusioned, corrupted London artist coping with tragic loss. The curator of the painting is a lonely gallerist whose life centres on her work. And the man charged with recovering the stolen painting is a gay man trapped in an abusive relationship.

The lives of these three damaged people, each evoked with a calm, moving sympathy reminiscent of Michael Cunningham or David Park, come together around the hauntingly strange Victorian painting. Set in London, Dublin, Northern Ireland and various European capitals, The Jewel is a major new novel from an Irish writer coming into his own.

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À propos de l'auteur

Neil Hegarty was born in Derry and studied English at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of the official biography of David Frost and of the acclaimed novel Inch Levels (Head of Zeus 2016), which will be published by Gallimard in France in 2019.

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Éditeur
Head of Zeus
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1789541808
ISBN 13 
9781789541809
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
368
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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