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The Fountain Of St. James Court; Or, Portrait Of The Artist As An Old Woman: A Novel (2013)

by Sena Jeter Naslund(Favorite Author)

2.93 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0061579327 (ISBN13: 9780061579325)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

William Morrow

review 1: This is marked as currently reading because I couldn't get through it. I read a lot of slow moving novels but found this one impossible. As many have said, the one novel was interesting, but the modern novel was pretentious - full of references (V. Woolf for heaven's sake, whose writing I adore)and arch comments that didn't really mean anything, at least to me. They just seemed an attempt to be clever. Even the story set in France didn't hold me, or else I'd have gone only to those chapters and skipped the others. I thought for sure there must be some relationship, a real one that would be revealed. Might have been but I couldn't stick with it. There are so many other books out there...
review 2: Expertly narrated, this novel tells the tale of a fictional write... morer (Ryn Callaghan) and the historical artist (Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun). Both tales are wondrously woven together so to capture the hues and light off of each tale to shine upon the other in the telling of these two stories. I found that I could not put this novel down, so delighted was I in the reading. The author's use of description was so finely crafted that it were as if she were using a paint brush to detail out the scenery. My only disappointment was in the conclusion of Ryn's tale, I felt that after the climatic action with her son's ex-boyfriend we were left hanging with not much of a final wrap-up. I would re-work the conclusion of this novel to give it more appeal, then after doing this the novel may well earn a five star rating. less

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