The Portrait

Opis książki:

The windswept isle of Houat, off the coast of Brittany, is no picturesque artists colony. At the turn of the twentieth century, life is harsh and rustic. So why did Henry Mac Alpine forsake London where he had been fted by critics and gallery owners, his works exhibited alongside the likes of Cezanne and Van Gogh to make his home in this remote outpost? The truth begins to emerge when, four years into his exile, Mac Alpine receives his first visitor. Influential art critic William Naysmith has come to the island to sit for a portrait. Over the course of the sitting, the power balance between the two men shifts dramatically as the critic whose pen could anoint or destroy careers becomes a passive subject. And as the painter struggles to capture Nasmiths true character on canvas, a story unfolds one of betrayal, hypocrisy, forbidden love, suicide and ultimately murder.

Książka "The Portrait" - Iain Pears - oprawa miękka - Wydawnictwo Harper Collins Publ. UK. Książka posiada 211 stron i została wydana w 2005 r.