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SARAH EMILY MIANO - Van Rijn

Title: Van Rijn
Description: Picador, 2006. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 475. Pieter Blaeu, a young publisher from a family of famous cartographers, meets the aged, destitute painter, Rembrandt van Rijn, on a tour of artists' studios in 1667, and is quickly enticed into his theatre of life through a strange mixture of admiration and repulsion. As Pieter delves into this shadowy world, he crosses paths with a fanciful troupe of characters, both living and dead: the painter`s relatives, friends, sitters and patrons, whose stories are sometimes bawdy and humorous, at other times philosophical and macabre. Meanwhile, Rembrandt is keeping a private journal, a dog-eared black tablet where he records everything from his rules of art and life to his dramas and recipes"or what he calls - the caprices of my restless brain`. When Pieter encounters a poet named Clara whose interest in Rembrandt equals his own, a love story emerges. Together the lovers attempt to unmask an ambitious man in pursuit of a fugitive truth, from his ascent to fame and wealth to his descent into unpopularity and poverty, seeking clues about his character. if only he weren`t such a master at playing hide-and-seek. - Miano`s writing displays all the verve, erudition and originality one might expect from such a hotly tipped new talent` Guardian. ISBN: 9780330411806. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

Keywords: 9780330411806

Price: EUR 12.50 = appr. US$ 13.59 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 1807889

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