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Modern Art

A Novel

By: Evelyn Toynton

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New York Times Notable Book: “The life of Jackson Pollock’s widow, Lee Krasner, provides the raw material for this strong, assured debut novel.” —Publishers Weekly Belle Prokoff is the last of a famous generation of painters for whom art was a secular religion—worth any amount of struggle and sacrifice for its promise of redemption. She is also the widow of Clay Madden, who revolutionized American art, became a near-mythic figure, and died in a drunken car crash. Blunt, fierce, and scornful of the world’s hypocrisy, Belle has passionately protected her husband’s memory in the three decades since his death. She has also persevered with her painting while the fashionable art scene fawns over her, not for her own work but for the valuable Madden canvases she clings to as the last relic of her tormented marriage. Now, facing the prospect of her impending death, Belle is confronted with another kind of threat: An unscrupulous biographer is snooping around in her past, working on a sensational book about Madden’s life. Before her battle to silence him spirals out of control, she is forced to make her peace with the people and events that have haunted her for decades. But Modern Art is not just Belle’s story. It is the story of all those still living in Madden’s shadow, from his flamboyant ex-dealer to a paranoid drug addict who sees himself as Madden’s spiritual son. It is the story of Paul, a younger painter aspiring to Madden’s greatness but obsessed with the art world’s neglect. And it is the story of Lizzie, a naïve romantic who has made Paul the center of her existence—a mistake Belle recognizes all too well when she hires Lizzie as her live-in companion. Inspired by the lives of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, this elegiac, impassioned novel creates a fictional universe full of vivid characters and intense confrontations. It is a tale of betrayal and longing, renunciation and self-discovery: the age-old conflicts of love and art.

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Open Road Media

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1453255826

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9781453255827

We Keep a Light

By: Evelyn Richardson

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We Keep a Light

By: Evelyn Richardson

In this classic memoir of life in rural Nova Scotia, a woman recounts her family’s experiences running a lighthouse station on their own island. In We Keep A Light, Evelyn M. Richardson describes how she and her husband bought tiny Bon Portage Island and built a happy life there for themselves and their three children. On an isolated lighthouse station off the southern tip of Nova Scotia, the Richardsons shared the responsibilities and pleasures of island living, from carrying water and collecting firewood to making preserves and studying at home. The close-knit family didn’t mind their isolation. Instead, they found delight in the variety and beauty of island life. We Keep A Light is much more than a memoir. It is an exquisitely written, engrossing record of family life set against a glowing lighthouse, the enduring shores of Nova Scotia, and the ever-changing sea.

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217

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Nimbus+ORM

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1551098393

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9781551098395

Complementation

Its Meanings and Forms

By: Evelyn N. Ransom

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Complementation

Its Meanings and Forms

By: Evelyn N. Ransom

This book presents a stage in the evolution of a theory of modality meanings and forms. It covers exclusively complements. There are two questions that this book addresses. Can one find a small, finite set of meanings which systematically underlies the enormous variety of meanings found in complements? And can one make any predictions from this set of meanings about the variety of forms they take? The answer to both questions is yes. The author convincingly shows how a multiplicity of sentence meanings and forms can be accounted for by breaking down sentence meaning into a small set of modules and howing how these modules combine to express certain meanings and how complement forms are related to them and their combinations.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027228809

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9789027228802

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