The Figures of Beauty: A Novel |
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| Authors: | Macfarlane, David |
| Publisher: | Harper |
| BISAC/Subject: | FIC027020, FIC019000, FIC008000 |
| ISBN: | 9780062307279, Related ISBNs: 0062307274, 9780062307194, 9780062307279 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 352, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
“Rich, imaginative. . . . One of the best novels I’ve read all year.”—Ross King, author of Leonardo and the Last Supper
A sensuous, heartbreaking novel about art, beauty, and the choices we make that define us for life.
In 1968 a young man travels to Paris, where a series of unlikely events takes him to a tiny village in Italy—and to the one great love of his life. A marble merchant meets a couple on their honeymoon, introducing them to the sensual beauty of Carrara. An Italian woman arrives in Canada to find the father she never knew. A terrible accident in a marble quarry changes the course of a young boy’s life and, ultimately, sets in motion each of these stories, which David Macfarlane masterfully shapes into a magnificent whole.
“A beautifully written, complex, and bittersweet story that spans continents and eras.”—Daphne Kalotay, author of Russian Winter and Sight Reading
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