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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I think that the time for me to give up reviewing books in the Early Reviewer offerings here has come. When I started I would often choose interesting and even very good books but it is a long time since that last happened and this was not the book to break the run of books that I have dutifully read and found wanting. This is another book that promises much and deliver nothing save frustration and that sinking feeling about a third in that makes me ask 'can I be bothered finishing this?'. I ploughed on even though none of the characters drew me at all when really I should have just metaphorically thrown it into the bin with the last few (metaphorically because it is an ebook). The plot was so what and the character development zero. Predictable but still disappointing. I do wonder now that everybody can publish whether it is up to people like me to winnow the stuff on offer and if it is then I quit ( )sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
The novel is set in and around the iconic Art Students League in New York City where 20th Century stars of the art world studied and taught. Here, Bert Kossoff teaches painting when he is not cloistered in his studio. His wife Ruth defends her husband's distance and tolerates his infidelities for the sake of their daughter. Sonata at age 18, lacking purpose of her own, is drawn to the mystique of her father in his world of artists and models. There she is betrayed by her artist/lover and comes to feel used, like Irene, a nude model posing for others to take what they want. In the struggle to find her way, Sonata encounters family secrets long concealed and later, one that tears open their lives, exposing the lies that have sustained them. As each member of this shattered family finds a path to move forward, art itself-the urgency to create-is revealed as a force of its own. The terrain is confounding, where people searching for truth have learned to practice the art of illusion. Telling this story of passion in family and in art, the author, an artist herself, makes both come vibrantly alive. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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