Mr. Gwyn Hardback
by Alessandro Baricco
Hardback
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After celebrated author Jasper Gwyn suddenly and publicly announces that he will never write another book, he embarks on a strange new career path as a "copyist," holding thirty-day sittings in a meticulously appointed room and producing, at the end, brief but profoundly rich portraits in prose.
The surprising, beautiful, and even frightening results are received with rapture by their subjects--among them Gwyn's devoted assistant, Rebecca; a beautiful fabric importer; a landscape painter; Gwyn's own literary agent; two wealthy newlyweds; a tailor to the Queen; and a very dangerous nineteen-year-old. Then Gwyn disappears, leaving behind only a short note to his assistant--and the portraits.
As Rebecca studies his words, she realizes that the mystery is larger than the simple fact of Gwyn's whereabouts, and she begins to unravel a lifetime's worth of clues left by a man who saw so much but said so little, a man whose solitude masked a heart as hungry as hers.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:258 pages
- Publisher:McSweeney's Publishing
- Publication Date:08/07/2014
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- ISBN:9781938073960
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:258 pages
- Publisher:McSweeney's Publishing
- Publication Date:08/07/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781938073960