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A newly married couple surrounded by the beauty of Paris, each in their own way struggling to define what marriage could and should look like. A high school teacher confronting echoes of his past as his current love negotiates the place of art in her own life. An artist explaining why the work that should have been the pinnacle of his career fell unexpectedly flat. A rich young man exploring and painting a new landscape and perhaps creating an alternate...
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Moments of reflection, moments of change. Surprise, discomfort. Tenacious hope. Life-altering grief. Five stories by Elizabeth Bowen, Maryann D'Agincourt, W. Somerset Maugham, and Edith Wharton bring a full spectrum of human experience and emotion together in the second of Portmay Press's collections of art fiction. Each piece in this volume was chosen for the unique way in which the author paints with words and, whether from the perspective of the...
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Maryann D'Agincourt's stunning novel in sketches follows Jocelyn from childhood to middle age, starting at the moment in her youth when she first hears the name of the mysterious Canadian painter, Alex Martaine, whispered by her parents. Each of them-Jocelyn, her art-loving mother, and her literary father-has a unique relationship with the artist, and he does, in ways the child could never imagine, turn each of their lives around.
4) Printz
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Imagine writing a novel about a man named Jacob Printz who lost his purpose in life. Imagine describing the one constant in Jacob's life, the image of Seated Woman he first viewed as a much younger person, an image he comes back to over and over to make sense of the loves and losses in his life. This is the image by de Kooning that you, as the author, saw in the same museum several years before, an image that intrigues and haunts you, informing your...
5) All Most
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This insightful collection of short stories takes the reader on a journey through a diverse array of lives and relationships, from a journalist finding new love after the death of her husband to a schoolgirl, shocked to discover her mother's secrets. D'Agincourt delves, deep into the emotional lives of her characters and sheds light on the mysteries of human decisions and the significance of art and music in our lives.
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The effects of World War II resonate through the lives of two families, one American and one European, living outside of Boston. As Jenny grows up in the shadow of her parents' dark experiences in Trieste during the war, she is pulled to the haunting art and ironic gaze of her next-door neighbor Jonas, whose own father, preparing for deployment as an army medic, died before he was born. But when, the mysterious Eric Stram enters her life unexpectedly,...
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New Mexico, 1985. Brigid Long Night, a young half-Navajo painter, goes to work as an assistant for the elderly Georgia O'Keeffe. Haunted by the decision to give up her newborn daughter for adoption, Brigid struggles with the direction and inertia of her life. With O'Keeffe's encouragement, Brigid develops a powerful style, incorporating language and wordplay as well as image in her portrayal of Native American life and her place in it.
Atlanta, 1995....
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The locals in the southern Italian town where he lives call him Signor Farfalla-Mr. Butterfly: for he is a discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies. His life is inconspicuous-mornings spent brushing at a canvas, afternoons idling in the cafes, and evening talks with his friend the town priest over a glass of brandy.
Yet there are other sides to this gentleman's life: Clara: the young student who moonlights in the town bordello. And another...
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In The Body Artist, author Don DeLillo focuses on a single life, a single death. This bestselling novella is -obscure, poetic, lean, earthy, more than slightly warped. After her husband's suicide, performance artist Lauren Hartke meets up with a kind of autistic savant who resonates with her past. She explores him, emphasizing intimacy and sensuality. Could he be the ghost of her late husband?
12) The inheritance
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In order to exonerate the estranged son of a murdered World War II veteran, an aging police inspector must investigate a priceless relic to figure out which of five other suspects was willing to kill for such a valuable artifact.
15) Chasing Vermeer
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When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
17) Drawn together
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A boy and his grandfather cross a language and cultural barrier using their shared love of art, storytelling, and fantasy.
19) Willow
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In art class, neatness, conformity, and imitation are encouraged, but when Willow brings imagination and creativity to her projects, even straight-laced Miss Hawthorn is influenced.
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