num_pages: 288
description: Austin Fraser's painting teacher had indoctrinated him with the view that unless something could be turned into art, it simply was not worth his time. And in this he included people. Austin certainly applied the principle to Sara Pengelly, who lived alone on the edge of Lake Superior.
language: English
title: The Underpainter
titlecomplete: The Underpainter
genres: Fiction, Historical, Canadian Literature, Canada, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, Art, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 2778
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
publisher: Trafalgar Square