Title: The Underpainter
First published: 1997
Description: "The detached eye of the narrator never falters, though passion hums beneath the surface like some vast primeval beast beneath the ice. The mixing of paints becomes erotic, and the minute recalling of details is sensual...Characters appear like wraiths from the fog, become dazzling specks on a snowblind eye, encounter dreams and apparitions, while the cold, painted-out hero is laid before us in his desperate vulnerability...A wholly believable and very moving experience." - *Independent*
Subjects: Fiction, Painters, scenery, farming, families, war, trauma, loneliness, Art and morals, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general, Artists, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction
Places: New York (State), Canada
Time periods: Early 20th Century
LC classification: PR9199.3.U7 U53 1997