The Underpainter
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0771086644
ISBN 13
9780771086649
Category
813 Fiction
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Publication Year
1997
Publisher
Pages
340
Subject
Canadian fiction -- 20th century. Authors, Canadian -- 20th century. Canadian fiction.
Abstract
"In Rochester, New York, a seventy-five-year-old American minimalist painter, Austin Fraser, is creating a new series of paintings as he remembers the details of his life and of the lives of those individuals who have affected him - his peculiar mother, a young Canadian soldier and china painter, a First World War nurse, the well-known American painter Rockwell Kent, and a waitress who lives in the wilderness mining settlement of Silver Islet, Ontario, and who became Austin's model and mistress. Spanning more than seven decades, from the turn of the century until the mid-seventies, the story takes place in upstate New York, on the north shores of both Lake Ontario and Lake Superior, in France during the First World War, and in New York City during the twenties and thirties."--Jacket.
Biblio Notes
Genre/Form: Historical fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jane Urquhart
ISBN: 0771086644 9780771086649
OCLC Number: 37195325
Description: 340 p. ; 22 cm.
Responsibility: Jane Urquhart.
Number of Copies
1
