Keeping the World Away

Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over... This engrossing, beautifully crafted novel follows the fictional adventures, over a hundred years, of an early 20th-century painting and the women whose lives it touches. 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.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 an unusual, compelling look at a beautiful painting and its imagined afterlife.

ISBN:	9780099496861
Publisher:	Random House
Imprint:	Vintage
Published date:	01 Mar 2007
DEWEY:	823.914
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	338
Weight:	252g
Height:	130mm
Width:	199mm
Spine width:	21mm

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