by Jane Urquhart · Emblem Editions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780771086540
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«The Underpainter» is the literary fiction novel by Jane Urquhart, published by Emblem Editions in paperback (352 pages, in English).
An elderly American painter recalls those who shaped his life: a Canadian soldier who painted porcelain and his model and lover. Memory leaps from New York to the Great Lakes, First World War France and the 1920s, portraying an artist who absorbs others' lives without giving anything back.
Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award and shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
For readers of literary and historical fiction, with an interest in art, memory and the aftermath of the First World War.
Jane Urquhart is a Canadian novelist and poet. She is the internationally acclaimed author of seven award-winning novels, three books of poetry, and numerous short stories.
