Keeping the World Away - Rilegato

Forster, Margaret

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ISBN 10: 0701179821 ISBN 13: 9780701179823

Casa editrice: Chatto & Windus, 2006

Riassunto

With the wonderfully satisfying appeal of Forster's bestselling "Diary of an Ordinary Woman" and the historical delights of "Lady's Maid", 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, born in the nineteenth century, coming of age in the twentieth, struggling to be an artist, going to 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, with artistic leanings, but less talent; and Stella, Lucasta, Ailsa, and Gillian, who share an unspoken desire to 'keep the world away', to have for themselves a tranquil golden place like that in the painting. Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, almost destroyed, fought over, and finally bequeathed, the picture makes its way from Paris to Hampstead, popping up on a London market stall after the Great War, finding its way to the Cornish coast, then back to London after the Second World War, eventually taking a brief trip to Scotland and returning at last to Paris at the turn of the twenty-first century...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 (one of a series by Gwen John, not all of which survived...) and its imagined afterlife.

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Recensione:

“Forster’s style is easy and unpretentious. In a brief paragraph she can create a character we care about, a story we long to see resolved.”
–Independent on Sunday
From the Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore:

Margaret Forster is the author of best-selling memoirs, Hidden Lives and Precious Lives, acclaimed biographies of Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and of many successful novels, most recently The Memory Box.

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• Editore: Chatto & Windus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0701179821
• ISBN 13: 9780701179823
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 352