A01=Pauline Holdstock
Author_Pauline Holdstock
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Product details
- ISBN 9780393327472
- Weight: 469g
- Dimensions: 140 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 07 Feb 2006
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Loosely based on the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, A Rare and Curious Gift tells the story of Sofonisba, a brilliant painter gradually taking over her father's studio. Determined to avoid the depredations of men, she is fighting her own intensely erotic attraction to Matteo Tassi; sculptor, goldsmith, notorious and irresistible rogue. Then a young female slave, her skin strangely mottled by nature, enters their lives and those of their friends. The fascination of these artists and scientists with the exotic creature in their midst; often cruel, sometimes humane; inevitably alters their relationship with one another and the world around them forever. Through this fearless story of utterly convincing human passions, Pauline Holdstock paints a rich, beautifully textured portrait of the Italian Renaissance and its material and spiritual visions of human nature. Reading group guide included.
Pauline Holdstock lives on Vancouver Island, Canada.
