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Item Details
Title:
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CIRCLES OF DECEIT
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By: |
Nina Bawden |
Format: |
Paperback |
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£7.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1860494307 |
ISBN 13: |
9781860494307 |
Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP |
Pub. date: |
1 March, 1998 |
Series: |
Virago Modern Classics |
Pages: |
224 |
Description: |
* Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and filmed by the BBC, this marvellous novel about the heroic yet impossible desire to protect another human being with love now joins the Virago Modern Classics |
Synopsis: |
Circles of Deceit is narrated by a painter who specialises as a copyist, this is his story: 'bothered by bills and artistic conscience in about equal measure. . .susceptible to, bullied and badgered by women.' Major figures on the canvas are Clio, his child-bride; Helen, his first wife; his mother Maisie. They confound lies and the truth in a subtle weave, while the silent agony of the painter's son is a poignant reflection on the busy web of deception. And as the copyist transcribes his modern versions of Old Masters, so the past keeps breaking through the surface of the present, until fact and fiction like art and life, meet in a remarkable conclusion. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Virago Press Ltd |
Prizes: |
Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 1987 |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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Book Level : 6.2
Interest Level : Upper Yrs
Points : 11
Quiz number : 202738
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