Paint Your Wife
de Jones, Lloyd
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“When you are drawing you are actually learning how to see. You do this through looking. Looking is untarnished glass. No green bits of judgement hanging from the lens. In order to draw you must to learn to see how things are – not how you wish they were, or once were” Paint Your Wife is the 10th fiction book by New Zealand author, Lloyd Jones. It starts with the mayor of New Egypt, Harry Bryant returning from a visit to his son in London. It is the late 1990s, and Harry’s town, on the North Island of New Zealand, has fallen on hard times. The paint factory has closed up; ideas for tourist attractions fail to gain funding; long-time locals are beginning to abandon the town for more prosperous places. In a last ditch attempt to attract attention, Harry gets Alma Martin to reproduce his old portraits of the town wives in a public space: it generates some outside interest, but also acts as a sort of catalyst for the locals, as does the arrival at Harry’s place of business (Pre-Loved Furnishings and Curios),of a young couple with twins, looking for accommodation. Alma Martin lives in the old Fire Warden’s cottage on the hill near Harry’s mother’s farm. He has tried his rather talented hand at quite a few things: colour technique at NE Paints; teaching; wartime rat catching; and, in lieu of payment for said rodent extermination, sketching and painting the wives of the town. Jones gives the reader a cast of charming and often quirky characters; the vignettes that fill in their backstories are captivating; there is plenty of humour and a fair share of wisdom; the feel of the town is well-rendered; the descriptive prose is a joy to read, Alma’s advice on drawing is also superbly expressive: “Light and shadow, he liked to say, are in constant negotiation as to which parts of the world the other can have” and “…seeing is not the same as looking. And in learning how to draw what you really learn is how to see. Once you learn how to see, good or bad or better doesn’t come into it” are just two illustrations of this. This offering by Jones is a delightful read, moving and uplifting, and loaded with gorgeous prose. This book was originally published in 2004, two years before the prize-winning Mister Pip, but this new edition by Text Publishing has wonderfully evocative cover art by W.H.Chong. Highly recommended.
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Auckland, New Zealand: Penguin Books, 2004. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). Complete number line from 1 to 10; signed by Lloyd Jones on the title page with no inscription; a bit of edge wear to card covers and light age toning to paper; a few top corners were slightly turned down; otherwise a solid, clean copy… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Paint Your Wife
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Penguin Books. Very Good. 23 cm. Paperback. 2004. 296 pages. <br>New Egypt is a small town on the slide. Businesses are failing, people are leaving. Men and women fall prey to crav ing elsewhere. A mural painted by Alma brings new interest in the town. During the Second World War, Alma, a painter, takes advant age of the… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Penguin Books. Very Good. 23 cm. Paperback. 2004. 296 pages. <br>Description 'He had seen one thing and thought th e other. He'd made the mistake of seeing what he expected to see, what he was used to seeing.' Once, long ago when the men were aw ay at the war, Alma began painting portraits of the women of… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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