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Verf Van Rode Rozen (2009)

by Barbara Ewing(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Van Holkema & Warendorf

review 1: I read a couple of Ewing's books a few summers ago and picked this one up to read this year and I really enjoyed it.The Fraud follows the story of Grace, a person burdened by circumstance who desires nothing more than to become a painter like her brother. I felt so attached to Grace, to her passion, her love and loss and desperation to be accepted for what she is: a painter. Well written reminiscent of 'The Tea Rose' in some of the writing style, for me anyway, I found the change of 3rd to 1st person a little of putting at first but I think it was well managed results in a wonderful book.
review 2: Deeply moving and a magnificently brave tour de force, this is a novel that rewards the reader handsomely for seeing through the journey, one which begins quite slow... morely and quietly in a way which offers few clues to the excitement that lies ahead. Set in the eighteenth century, in the era of Gainsborough, Reynolds and Hogarth, at the heart of the story is an unravelling of what it takes to be a uniquely talented artist, and moreover a woman, at a time when women were never taken seriously as artists. The book is brave because it breaks so many rules, using a rather distant narrator's voice initially, and shifting viewpoint, even using different typefaces to distinguish the changes which are sometimes quite abrupt. But there are reasons for all these quirks which only become clear in the final resolution, and I'd say this book is a triumph because it taps into the fundamental connection between creativity and feeling. less

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