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All the colour in the world : a novel
- Title
- All the colour in the world : a novel / CS Richardson.
- Author
- Richardson, C. S.
- Publication
- Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2023.
- ©2023
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 24-175 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 195 pages; 21 cm
- 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."--
- Alternative Title
- All the color in the world
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans.
- Historical fiction.
- Novels
- Bildungsromans
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- History
- Novels.
- Romans.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Call Number
- JFD 24-175
- ISBN
- 9781039003514
- 1039003516
- 9781039003521 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 1313913103
- Author
- Richardson, C. S., author.
- Title
- All the colour in the world : a novel / CS Richardson.
- Publisher
- Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- Online version: Richardson, C. S. All the colour in the world. Toronto : Knopf Canada, 2023 1039003524 9781039003521 (OCoLC)1313919123
- Research Call Number
- JFD 24-175