
Van Rijn
Sarah Emily Miano(Author)
Picador (Publisher)
Published on 3. March 2006
Book
Hardback
496 pages
978-0-330-41180-6 (ISBN)
Description
Pieter Blaeu, a young publisher from a family of famous cartographers, meets the aged, destitute painter, Rembrandt van Rijn, on a tour of artists' studios in 1667, and is quickly enticed into his theatre of life through a strange mixture of admiration and repulsion. As Pieter delves into this shadowy world, he crosses paths with a fanciful troupe of characters, both living and dead: the painter's relatives, friends, sitters and patrons, whose stories are sometimes bawdy and humorous, at other times philosophical and macabre. Meanwhile, Rembrandt is keeping a private journal, a dog-eared black tablet where he records everything from his rules of art and life to his dramas and recipes or what he calls 'the caprices of my restless brain'. When Pieter encounters a poet named Clara whose interest in Rembrandt equals his own, a love story emerges. Together, the lovers attempt to unmask an ambitious man in pursuit of a fugitive truth, from his ascent to fame and wealth to his descent into unpopularity and poverty, seeking clues about his character...if only he weren't such a master at playing hide-and-seek.
'Miano's writing displays all the verve, erudition and originality one might expect from such a hotly tipped new talent'. - "Guardian".
'Miano's writing displays all the verve, erudition and originality one might expect from such a hotly tipped new talent'. - "Guardian".
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
628 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-330-41180-6 (9780330411806)
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Person
Sarah Emily Miano was born in Buffalo NY. Former pastry chef, private eye and tour-bus driver, she has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Her fiction has been seen in Pembroke Magazine and Paper, Scissors, Stone. She is the author of The Encyclopaedia of Snow.