An edition of The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque (2002)

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An edition of The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque (2002)

The portrait of Mrs. Charbuque

1st ed.
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"The toast of 1893 New York society, the portraitist Piero Piambo has his pick of choice assignments. Acclaimed by his peers and his "betters," he is a fixture in the city's most opulent salons, yet he fears he has sold his soul to arrive there. But then comes a commission unlike any other - one that will test Piambo's talents, his will .. and his sanity.".

"The client is a Mrs. Charbuque, and the offer she makes to the artist is as bizarre and intriguing as it is financially rewarding. Piambo must paint the lady's portrait, and for the service he may name any price. However, though he may question her at length on any topic, he must never look upon his subject. And if the painting ends up a true likeness, his payment will be doubled.".

"With sketchbook in hand and his "model" hidden behind an elegant screen, the artist begins his haunting descent into her life and mind. Carried by her words through a strange childhood in a world of ice - where she aided an obsessed, perhaps murderous, father in his study of the divine language of snowflakes - and across a history marked by fame and despair, desire and rage, phantasm and myth, Piambo is alternately seduced and repulsed by the story she has to tell.

Yet each session leaves him more determined than ever to unwrap the enigma that is Mrs. Charbuque.".

"But while he struggles to capture in oils the face of a woman he has never seen, a series of horrific and inexplicable deaths rocks the outside city. On street corners, in the alleys off the bustling shopping areas, and between the crumbling tenements, anonymous women are dying, their lifeblood flowing freely like tears from their eyes. And the deeper Piambo is drawn into Mrs.

Charbuque's world, the more he begins to suspect that these terrible events, his impossible task, and his odd "benefactress" are somehow intimately connected."--BOOK JACKET.

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William Morrow
Language
English
Pages
310

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The Portrait of Mrs.Charbuque
April 2, 2004, Tor
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The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque: A Novel
May 27, 2003, Harper Perennial
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The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque: A Novel
May 27, 2003, Harper Perennial
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The portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
2002, William Morrow
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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3556.O6997 P67 2002, PS3556.O6997P67 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
310 p. ;
Number of pages
310

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3953842M
ISBN 10
0066211263
LCCN
2001052160
OCLC/WorldCat
48100517
Library Thing
49322
Goodreads
1718853

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MUCH TO my unease, Mrs. Reed positioned herself, all evening, beneath or immediately to either side of her new portrait.
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