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- Publisher: Penguin Audio USA; Unabridged edition
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0142800457
- ISBN-13: 978-0142800454
- Product Dimensions: 14.5 x 13.4 x 4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 322 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,786,748 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This review is from: Forest Lover (Hardcover)
At least I can't imagine they were . . . THE FOREST LOVER is just one of many books that have come out this past year, dealing with art, artists, and the general terrority that goes with that genre. Susan Vreeland has capatilized on this, and she's the best of the lot for doing so. The subject of Vreeland's book is the Canadian artist Emily Carr who traveled through British Columbia in the first part of the last century to paint villages, totem poles, and other artifacts before they disappeared. what might sound like a boring foray into the wilds turns epic and extrordinary in the hands of Vreeland. If you liked books such as GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING and the gorgeous and brilliant BARK OF THE DOGWOOD, then you'll probably enjoy this unusual novel as well.
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This review is from: Forest Lover Unabridged (Audio CD)
A stage background in Shakespearean plays may be what gives voice performer Karen White's voice a richness of timbre so appropriate for this story. Further, she reads the life of an iconic artist with sympathetic understanding while not at all detracting from the courage and determination that defined this remarkable woman, Emily Carr (1871-1945).With messianic zeal Carr was determined to paint the incomparable totem poles carved and decorated by the Indians of British Columbia. Years ahead of her time she chose to do this with bold colors in modular, expressionistic depictions. Following her calling much to the distress and recrimination of her family and the society of her day, she became an art teacher who decried traditional ways. In this fictionalized portrait of the extraordinary artist Susan Vreeland (Girl in Hyacinth Blue and The Passion of Artemisia) traces Carr's travels into the deepest wilderness to meet an indigenous people. While many of her journeys were solo undertakings she did have friends and compatriots, among them were Sophie, A Native American basket maker, Harold, a missionary's son, and Fanny an Australian painter. Later Carr went to Paris where in 1911 she became a part of the avant garde artists who were developing modernism and cubism. With her third such novel Vreeland once again brings to unforgettable life another time, another place, and an extraordinary individual.
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A READING RICH IN TIMBRE,
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This review is from: Forest Lover Unabridged (Audio CD)
A stage background in Shakespearean plays may be what gives voice performer Karen White's voice a richness of timbre so appropriate for this story. Further, she reads the life of an iconic artist with sympathetic understanding while not at all detracting from the courage and determination that defined this remarkable woman, Emily Carr (1871-1945).With messianic zeal Carr was determined to paint the incomparable totem poles carved and decorated by the Indians of British Columbia. Years ahead of her time she chose to do this with bold colors in modular, expressionistic depictions. Following her calling much to the distress and recrimination of her family and the society of her day, she became an art teacher who decried traditional ways. In this fictionalized portrait of the extraordinary artist Susan Vreeland (Girl in Hyacinth Blue and The Passion of Artemisia) traces Carr's travels into the deepest wilderness to meet an indigenous people. While many of her journeys were solo undertakings she did have friends and compatriots, among them were Sophie, A Native American basket maker, Harold, a missionary's son, and Fanny an Australian painter. Later Carr went to Paris where in 1911 she became a part of the avant garde artists who were developing modernism and cubism. With her third such novel Vreeland once again brings to unforgettable life another time, another place, and an extraordinary individual. - Gail Cooke
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