Doris McCarthy, whose extraordinary career embraces more than half a century of Canadian art history, won glowing reviews for the first installment of her warm and intimate autobiography, A Fool in Paradise, the book that recounted her growth as a woman and artist.
It marked a new departure for women’s autobiography: Elspeth Cameron, writing in Saturday Night magazine called it “a book so direct and simple it seems almost to invent its form.” The Toronto Star declared it a work of “great fascination, deserving a permanent place on the shelf of Canadian artists memoirs.” Books in Canada echoed countless others: “it makes one yearn for more.”
The Good Wine describes her life from 1950 to 1991. At age forty, she broke free of her teaching responsibilities to take a year’s sabbatical in Europe as a full-time painter. It was the first of many adventures in the wider world that included a solitary round-the- world odyssey from Japan to Australia, India to the Middle East. She discovered the Arctic and in 1991, Antarctica, drawing inspiration for her art and her life in the far-flung corners she visited and in the beloved landscape of her own country.
Encounters with Dorothy Sayers and Arnold Toynbee, friendships with Bora Laskin and Boyd Neel, politics and controversies within the fledgling Canadian art community, the painful losses and unexpected victories of later life — all colour this account of four decades that saw her recognized as one of Canada’s foremost landscape painters.
Doris McCarthy’s vibrant, creative energy, her intense and hard-won independence, the great strength she found in love and friendships make this second volume of her memoirs as enchanting as the first.
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“Clear, clean and crafted prose matches the author’s voice, which is as open as it is beguiling.”
–Globe and Mail
Doris McCarthy is one of Canada’s foremost landscape painters, whose warm and intimate autobiography has won critical acclaim, and whose extraordinary career embraces more than half a century of Canadian art history.
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Da: M. W. Cramer Rare and Out Of Print Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The book is signed by Doris McCarthy on the full title page. The book is near fine with a small stain to the fore-edge. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo 016258
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Da: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.8. Codice articolo G0921912366I4N00
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Da: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Covers show slight shelf wear and scuffing. All pages intact, binding is sound. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.8. signed and inscribed by author. Codice articolo 1852808266
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Da: Lower Beverley Better Books, Lyndhurst, ON, Canada
Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket as Issued. 1st Edition. Book, " presents the 2nd half of her life, years of professional struggle, exotic solo travel and ultimate fulfilment." (rear panel) 248 pp. plus Index. Book has very slight shelf wear. Laid in is: Kingston Whig Standard 2004 article, ' Renowned landscape artist McCarthy brings insights to city', 3 photographs of the author at the book's signing, announcement of the slide presentation in Kingston. Illustrated with b/w photographs. FlatSIGNED by author/painter in blue ink. Doris McCarthy d. 2010. Bookseller's Inventory # 230557. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo 000557
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