| A Painter of Our Time Contributor(s): Berger, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679737235 ISBN-13: 9780679737230 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $16.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1996 Annotation: This visionary first novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of To the Wedding and G. is at once a gripping intellectual and moral detective story and a book whose aesthetic insights make it a companion piece to John Berger's great works of art criticism. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General - Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.16" W x 8" (0.54 lbs) 208 pages |
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| Publisher Description: From John Berger, the Booker Prize-winning author of G., A Painter of Our Time is at once a gripping intellectual and moral detective story and a book whose aesthetic insights make it a companion piece to Berger's great works of art criticism. The year is 1956. Soviet tanks are rolling into Budapest. In London, an expatriate Hungarian painter named Janos Lavin has disappeared following a triumphant one-man show at a fashionable gallery. Where has he gone? Why has he gone? The only clues may lie in the diary, written in Hungarian, that Lavin has left behind in his studio. With uncanny understanding, John Berger has written oneo f hte most convincing portraits of a painter in modern literature, a revelation of art and exile. |