โ Cassandra Austen
๐ Fiction
๐
2018
๐ Apollo Grannus Books;Not Avail
๐ English
โ 335 KB
๐ 1 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
The Portrait
โ Scribed by Iain Pears
- Publisher
- Penguin USA, Inc.;Riverhead Books
- Year
- 2011;2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 108 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
An art critic journeys to a remote island off Brittany to sit for a portrait painted by an old friend, a gifted but tormented artist living in self-imposed exile. The painter recalls their years of friendship, the gift of the critic's patronage, and his callous betrayals. As he struggles to capture the character of the man, as well as his image, on canvas, it becomes clear that there is much more than a portrait at stake...
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