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The main character is a reputable copier of old master paintings whose sharp, charming wife leaves him. They have a tragic schizophrenic son, and perhaps because of this he gets involved with and marries waif-like Clio whose little son he loves and protects.
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Beautifully observed (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)
Plays with time and notions of forgery and fidelity in life and art, as well as tracing with extraordinary exactness and creative tact the pain and survival of loss of a loved one (GUARDIAN)
Unfolds like a Persian carpet in a market place, each new inch surprising . . As gripping as a thriller and elegant at the same time (Frances Fyfield)
Among the most perceptive and accomplished novelists writing today (P.D. JAMES)
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Plays with time and notions of forgery and fidelity in life and art, as well as tracing with extraordinary exactness and creative tact the pain and survival of loss of a loved one (GUARDIAN)
Unfolds like a Persian carpet in a market place, each new inch surprising . . As gripping as a thriller and elegant at the same time (Frances Fyfield)
Among the most perceptive and accomplished novelists writing today (P.D. JAMES)
* Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and filmed by the BBC, this marvellous novel about the heroic yet impossible desire to protect another human being with love now joins the Virago Modern Classics
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 014010741X
- ISBN 13 9780140107418
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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