Keeping the World Away

di Margaret Forster (Autore)

Vintage Publishing, 2007

Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over... This engrossing, beautifully crafted novel follows the fictional adventures, over a hundred years, of an early 20th-century painting and the women whose lives it touches. It opens with bold, passionate Gwen, struggling to be an artist, leaving for Paris where she becomes Rodin's lover and paints a small, intimate picture of a quiet corner of her attic room. Then there's Charlotte, a dreamy intellectual Edwardian girl, and Stella, Lucasta, Ailsa and finally young Gillian, who share an unspoken desire to have for themselves a tranquil golden place like that in the painting. Quintessential Forster, this is a novel about women's lives, about what it means and what it costs to be both a woman and an artist, and an unusual, compelling look at a beautiful painting and its imagined afterlife.

• Autore: Margaret Forster
• Editore: Vintage Publishing
• Anno: 2007
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 352 p.
• Dimensioni: 197 x 131 mm
• Peso: 248 gr.
• EAN: 9780099496861

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