Creation - Hardcover

Creation

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(Westbank, BC, Kanada)

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Buchbeschreibung Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. Brand New and Unread- First Edition, First Printing with full number line 1-10- Katherine Govier's Creation is a superb fictionalized account of the life of John James Audubon, with a focus on a journey the famous artist took to the coast of Labrador in 1833 to observe and paint birds in the wild. While there, he befriends the Captain Bayfield of the Royal Navy, the man responsible for charting the dangerous coastline. Through the short, stormy summer, Audubon longs for his days in the lush gardens of Charleston, South Carolina, where he has left behind the lovely Maria. With its detailed, sensuous, and at times highly suggestive descriptions of birds and flowers, and its palpable vision of Labrador's inhospitable coast, this is a book of rare beauty. Audubon is an artist obsessed with his project--a huge folio of all the birds of North America painted and engraved life-sized--and Govier captures this obsession perfectly by opening the reader's eyes and ears to what the painter sees and hears: "Tame song is beautiful, but wild song is haunting," "eggs . emitting their strange light," or, describing a crossbill, "feet . the golden brown of pine sap." But this is also the story of a man who was addicted to lying to hide his questionable roots (Audubon was Haitian) and who used and abused friends and family to realize his artistic vision. Govier's Audubon is a complex character of extraordinary energy and drive, who, in the end, begins to see how the magnificent fertility of nature will grow thinned and strained under man's relentless progress. A wonderful book. --Mark Frutkin. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 010043

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