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Urquhart, Jane

The Underpainter

McClelland & Stewart, 1997

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Year of publication
1997
ISBN
0771086644
Place of printing
Toronto
Author
Urquhart, Jane
Publishers
McClelland & Stewart
Edition
1st Canadian Edition
Keyword
CANADIAN FICTION ARTISTS WORLD WAR I
Cover description
New
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
New
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

The Underpainter is a novel of interwoven lives in which the world of art collides with the realm of human emotion. It is the story of Austin Fraser, an American painter now in his later years, who is haunted by memories of those whose lives most deeply touched his own, including a young Canadian soldier and china painter and the beautiful model who becomes Austin's mistress. Spanning decades, the setting moves from upstate New York to the northern shores of two Great Lakes; from France in World War One to New York City in the '20s and '30s. Brilliantly depicting landscape and the geography of the imagination It won the 1997 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction, and a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.