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Margaret Forster - Keeping the World Away, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

Keeping the World Away

Av Margaret Forster

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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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2007-03-01
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 23 mm
  • Vikt: 256 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 352
  • Förlag: Vintage Publishing
  • ISBN: 9780099496861
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Born in Carlisle, Margaret Forster was the author of many successful and acclaimed novels, including Have the Men Had Enough?, Lady's Maid, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Is There Anything You Want? , Keeping the World Away, Over and The Unknown Bridesmaid. She also wrote bestselling memoirs – Hidden Lives, Precious Lives and, most recently, My Life in Houses – and biographies. She was married to writer and journalist Hunter Davies and lived in London and the Lake District. She died in February 2016, just before her last novel, How to Measure a Cow, was published.

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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

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