All the Colour in the World : A Novel

✍ Scribed by CS Richardson

• Book ID: 111911295
• Publisher: Knopf Canada
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781039003521

✦ Synopsis

Longlisted for the 2023 Giller Prize
The story of the restorative power of art in one man's life, set against the sweep of the twentieth century--from Toronto in the '20s and '30s, through the killing fields of World War II, to 1960s Sicily.
"Bold and resplendent. . . . Leave it to CS Richardson to find a way to paint with words." --Nita Prose, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid
Henry, born 1916, thin-as-sticks, nearsighted, is an obsessive doodler--copying illustrations from his Boy 's Own magazines. Left in the care of a nurturing, Shakespeare-quoting grandmother, eight-year-old Henry receives as a gift his first set of colouring pencils (and a pocket knife for the sharpening). As he commits these colours to memory--cadmium yellow; burnt ochre; deep scarlet red--a passion for art, colour, and the stories of the great artists takes hold, and becomes Henry's...