Keeping the world away
Forster, Margaret, 1938-2007
Books
Find it!
Quintessential Forster, this is a novel about women's lives, about what it means and what it costs to be both a woman and an artist, and a compelling look at a beautiful painting and its imagined afterlife. It opens with bold, passionate Gwen, struggling to be an artist, leaving for Paris where she becomes Rodin's lover and paints a small, intimate picture of a quiet corner of her attic room. Then there's Charlotte, a dreamy intellectual Edwardian girl, and Stella, Lucasta, Ailsa and finally young Gillian, who share an unspoken desire to have for themselves a tranquil golden place like that in the painting.
Main title:
Keeping the world away / Margaret Forster.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2007.
Collation:
xii, 338 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2006.
ISBN:
00994968609780099496861 (pbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
1417356
More Information: