Underpainter
by:
Jane Urquhart (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780747535218 (0747535213)
Publish date: July 23rd 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Art,
Contemporary,
Canada,
Relationships,
Canadian Literature
I loved all the art talk. It took a long time however, to pull the story together but I liked that it wasn't predictable.
I'm not quite finished yet, but tThis appears to be one ginormous "Metaphor" stretched like canvas to the ripping point over the rickety frame of a character portrait. A portrait, that is, of the artist as a pathologically egocentric, arrogant, callous youth who, despite his dawning self-awareness...
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