Editore: Random House Australia, 2010
ISBN 10: 1741667151 ISBN 13: 9781741667158
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Paperback. Condizione: Good.
Editore: Random House Australia, 2010
ISBN 10: 1741667151 ISBN 13: 9781741667158
Da: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Condizione: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Editore: Random House Australia, 2010
ISBN 10: 1741667151 ISBN 13: 9781741667158
Da: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
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Editore: Vintage Australia, 2008
ISBN 10: 1741667135 ISBN 13: 9781741667134
Da: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, Nuova Zelanda
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 336 pages. Greer Gordon lives in Italy with Mischa Svoboda, a driven Czech-born painter with a booming international reputation. Their explosive love affair caused Greer to abandon her husband and job, to sever all contact with home, and to embark upon a nomadic life with Mischa. Tony, a young American art critic, has been .
Paperback. 408. Greer Gordon lives in Italy with Mischa Svoboda, a driven Czech-born painter with a booming international reputation. She and Mischa met in the 1970s, when his debut show at the small Melbourne art gallery where Greer then worked created a sensation. He was unknown at the time, a recently arrived refugee from Prague. Their explosive love affair caused Greer to abandon her husband, job and autocratic boss Verity, sever all contact with home and embark on a nomadic life with Mischa. Twenty-five years later, Tony, a young American art critic, has been researching a biography of Mischa and arrives in the small Italian hilltop community where they now live. Greer is consumed by anxiety, fearing 'the biographer' may have unearthed something that happened as a consequence of her meeting Mischa, a buried secret she had intended to write out of her life story. Greer and Tony play out a gripping cat-and-mouse game in which she tries to glean who he has spoken to and what, if anything, he knows, while he lets drop, with calculated casualness, graded snippets of information designed to keep her guessing. It becomes clear that Tony is manipulating a dramatic outcome for the purposes of his story. It will be an investigative read in which the reader discovers the facts as the biographer-detective unravels them. The biographer intends to make his name with this book. As her hand is forced, Greer embarks on a tense journey of her own. In revisiting the past from the perspective of the present, through Tony's artful interrogations and her own diary, she is compelled to put her youthful self on trial. In the process she makes a life-changing discovery. 2008. A trade paperback copy in very good condition with light tanning to the top edge and light creasing to the corners of the wraps.