The painting : a novel / by Nina Schuyler.
By: Schuyler, Nina.
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BookPublisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books, 2004Edition: 1st ed.Description: 299 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 1565124413.Subject(s): Art appreciation -- Fiction | Paris (France) -- Fiction | Women painters -- Fiction | Married women -- Fiction | Adultery -- Fiction | Painting -- Fiction | Japan -- Fiction | Art appreciation -- Fiction | Paris (France) -- Fiction | Women painters -- Fiction | Wives -- Fiction | Adultery -- Fiction | Painting -- Fiction | Japan -- Fiction | Psychological fiction | Historical fiction | Love storiesGenre/Form: Psychological fiction. | Historical fiction. | Love stories.DDC classification: 813/.6 Summary: Jorgen, a store clerk crippled in the Franco-Prussian War, becomes obsessed with a painting he finds hidden in a shipment of ceramic bowls from Japan by a desperately unhappy wife who tries to ease her sorrow by painting memories of her lost love.
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Jorgen, a store clerk crippled in the Franco-Prussian War, becomes obsessed with a painting he finds hidden in a shipment of ceramic bowls from Japan by a desperately unhappy wife who tries to ease her sorrow by painting memories of her lost love.
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