Buy this book on-line BAWDEN,NINA: : CIRCLES OF DECEITLONDON.MACMILLAN, 1987. ISBN 0333446844.
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A subtle and compelling story of human suffering enveloped in a comedy of deception,it is the achievement of a writer at the height of her powers.
Narrated by a painter who specialises as a copyist - 'an honest craftsman; not a cheat,not a forger' - this is his story:
'bothered by bills and artistic conscience in about equal measure, physically short and rotund like my merry, dead grandfather,but unlike him (I hope for his sake) susceptible to,bullied and badgered by women.' His women: Clio,his child-bride,wilful,deceptive,dependent;
Helen,his first wife,his beloved betrayer; and Maisie, his mother,redoubtable and straightforward,yet not altogether what she seems.
Major figures on the canvas,they confound lies and truth in a subtle weave,while the silent agony of the painter's son is a poignant reflection on the busy web of deception.
And as the copyist transcribes his modern versions of Old Masters,so the past keeps
breaking through the surface of the present,until fact and fiction,like art and life,meet in a remarkable conclusion.
Elaborate,compelling and beautifully crafted,this moving counterpoint of artistic and emotional deceit confirms Bawden's reputation as one of our most outstanding novelists.Nominated and short-listed for the 1987,Booker Prize.See also rja2078.
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A subtle and compelling story of human suffering enveloped in a comedy of deception,it is the achievement of a writer at the height of her powers.
Narrated by a painter who specialises as a copyist - 'an honest craftsman; not a cheat,not a forger' - this is his story:
'bothered by bills and artistic conscience
in about equal measure,physically short and rotund like my merry,dead grandfather, but unlike him (I hope for his sake) susceptible to,bullied and badgered by women.' His women: Clio,his child-bride, wilful,deceptive,dependent; Helen,his first wife,his beloved betrayer; and Maisie,his mother,redoubtable and straightforward,yet not altogether what she seems.Major figures on the canvas, they confound lies and truth in a subtle weave, while the silent agony of the painter's son is a poignant reflection on the busy web of deception.
And as the copyist transcribes his modern versions of Old Masters,so the past keeps
breaking through the surface of the present,until fact and fiction,like art and life,meet in a remarkable conclusion.
Elaborate,compelling and beautifully crafted,this moving counterpoint of artistic and emotional deceit confirms Bawden's reputation as one of our most outstanding novelists.Nominated and short-listed for the 1987,Booker Prize.See also rja2077.
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