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All the colour in the world : a novel

Richardson, C. S. (author.).

Summary: "A beautifully transporting novel capturing the romantic sweep of the twentieth century--from Toronto in the '20s and '30s through the killing fields of World War II, to 1960s Rome and Florence. Born in 1916, Henry, thin-as-sticks and nearsighted, is an obsessive doodler who shamelessly copies illustrations from his Boys Own magazines. Left in the care of a nurturing, no-nonsense, Shakespeare-quoting, cardsharp grandmother, Henry receives as a gift a pristine set of Faber-Castell colouring pencils (and a pocket knife for the sharpening). He immediately commits each colour to memory--cadmium yellow; light ultramarine; burst ochre; deep scarlet red--and a passion for colour, art, and stories and techniques of the great artists is lit. It will sustain him, and obsess him, on his life's journey through the joys and sorrows of the twentieth century: from a boyhood spent dreaming of adventure, to the hothouse world of artistic academia, a first love cut short by tragedy, the brutality and lingering wounds of World War II, and, in the final chapters of life, the grace of unexpected love. Projected against an efflorescent backdrop of iconic art masterpieces--from the richly hued oils of the European masters to the technicolour splendour of The Wizard of Oz--All the Colour in the World is Henry's story: part miscellany, part memory palace, exquisitely precise with the emotional sweep of a great modern romance."--

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  • ISBN: 1039003516
  • ISBN: 9781039003514
  • ISBN: 1039003524
  • ISBN: 9781039003521
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (unpaged)
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  • Publisher: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, 2023.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Additional Physical Form available Note:
Issued also in print format.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 13, 2023).
Subject: Literature
Historical Fiction
Fiction
Art -- Fiction
Art -- History -- Fiction
Canada -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Art -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
Art -- Histoire -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
Canada -- Histoire -- 20e siècle -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
Art
Canada
Genre: Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Fiction
History

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