Molly & the Captain - 'A gripping mystery' Guardian pan Anthony Quinn
Caractéristiques
- Molly & the Captain - 'A gripping mystery' Guardian
- Anthony Quinn
- Format: Pdf, ePub, MOBI, FB2
- ISBN: 9781408713235
- Editeur: Abacus
- Date de parution: 2022
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Overview
From the award-winning author of Curtain Call, Freya and Our Friends in Berlin comes a sweeping story of art and love through the lens of a single painting'An intricate, moving novel... Quinn's best book to date' Observer'Every sentence he produces is a joy' Metro'Opens up timeless themes of family, success and love' New Statesman'Quinn is an intelligent analyst of the uncertainties of love and art' Sunday TimesA celebrated artist of the Georgian era paints his two young daughters at the family home in Bath.
The portrait, known as "Molly &the Captain", becomes instantly famous, its fate destined to echo down the centuries, touching many lives. In the summer of 1889 a young man sits painting a line of elms in Kensington Gardens. One day he glimpses a mother at play with her two daughters and decides to include them in his picture. From that moment he is haunted by dreams that seem to foreshadow his doom.
A century later, in Kentish Town, a painter and her grown-up daughters receive news of an ancestor linking them to the long-vanished double portrait of "Molly &the Captain". Meanwhile friendship with a young musician stirs unexpected passions and threatens to tear the family apart. Molly & the Captain is a story about time and art and love. Through the prism of a single painting it examines the mysteries of creativity, and the ambiguous nature of success.
What weighs more, loyalty to one's talent or loyalty to one's blood? Does self-sacrifice ennoble the soul or degrade it? And what does it mean to speak of the past when its hold on the present is inescapable?Through Anthony Quinn's signature gifts - period subtlety, intricate characterisation and storytelling verve this triptych novel melds three families and three centuries into a single vision of human frailty and longing.
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