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The Landscape of Love
2 journalers for this copy...
First the blurb from the back of the book:
'The summer of 1967, in the heart of rural Suffolk; thirteen year old Maisie is at her decaying family home, once a medieval abbey. Lucas, an artist and friend, is painting a portrait of Maisie and her elder sisters - arrogant, beautiful Julia and bookish Finn. In turn Maisie embacrks on a portrait of her won: she tells the story of her sisters and their lovers; of her village friend, Daniel Nunn. She describes a lost England and a last summer - golden months in which lives will irevocably, and terribly, change.
Twenty three years later: it's 1991 in a wintry London, Lucas's now famous portrait of the three Mortland sisters features in a retrospective of his work. Daniel, down on his luck, obsessed by the sisters and determined to understand what happened that last summer at the Abbey, persues answers to the past.
The Landscape of Love explores the nature of perception, the misdemeanours of love, the dangers of art and the devilry of language. It examines stories, but is in itself a story that grips from the first page. Beguiling, complex, hauntingly sad and often wonderfully funny, it is a dazzling tour de force.'
I nearly abandoned this book after the first few pages, then I turned a corner and was gripped! It paints a picture of the same lives viewed from different perspectives - and how events can be misconstrued with devastating results.
'The summer of 1967, in the heart of rural Suffolk; thirteen year old Maisie is at her decaying family home, once a medieval abbey. Lucas, an artist and friend, is painting a portrait of Maisie and her elder sisters - arrogant, beautiful Julia and bookish Finn. In turn Maisie embacrks on a portrait of her won: she tells the story of her sisters and their lovers; of her village friend, Daniel Nunn. She describes a lost England and a last summer - golden months in which lives will irevocably, and terribly, change.
Twenty three years later: it's 1991 in a wintry London, Lucas's now famous portrait of the three Mortland sisters features in a retrospective of his work. Daniel, down on his luck, obsessed by the sisters and determined to understand what happened that last summer at the Abbey, persues answers to the past.
The Landscape of Love explores the nature of perception, the misdemeanours of love, the dangers of art and the devilry of language. It examines stories, but is in itself a story that grips from the first page. Beguiling, complex, hauntingly sad and often wonderfully funny, it is a dazzling tour de force.'
I nearly abandoned this book after the first few pages, then I turned a corner and was gripped! It paints a picture of the same lives viewed from different perspectives - and how events can be misconstrued with devastating results.
Released 18 yrs ago (7/2/2005 UTC) at
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Snaffled at the Unconvention, many thanks.
