- Fiction, Painters, Fiction, general, Artists, fiction
"In Rochester, New York, a seventy-five-year-old artist, Austin Fraser, is creating a new seies of paintings that recall 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"--Back cover.
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Grave, earnest, contemplative and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Jane Urquhart
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 340
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart, Penguin
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780771086649
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