The underpainter
by Jane Urquhart
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In Rochester, New York, a seventy-five-year-old American minimalist painter, Austin Fraser, is creating a new series of paintings as he remembers the details of his life and of the lives of those individuals who have affected him - his peculiar mother, a young Canadian soldier and china painter, a First World War nurse, the well-known American painter Rockwell Kent, and a waitress who lives in the wilderness mining settlement of Silver Islet, Ontario, and who became Austin's model and mistress.
Spanning more than seven decades, from the turn of the century until the mid-seventies, the story takes place in upstate New York, on the north shores of both Lake Ontario and Lake Superior, in France during the First World War, and in New York City during the twenties and thirties.
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Fiction, Painters, scenery, farming, families, war, trauma, loneliness, Art and morals, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general, Artists, fiction, New york (n.y.), fictionPlaces
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"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
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