The Rules Of Perspective

Thorpe, Adam

ISBN 10: 0224051873 ISBN 13: 9780224051873

Verlag: Jonathan Cape, London, UK, 2005

Sprache: Englisch

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First edition, first printing. 340pp. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine head. Maroon endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, price unclipped. 8vo. Novel set in the final months of World War 2 in which a young American serviceman finds an exquisite painting in what remains of the museum vaults in the German town of Lohenfelde.

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Titel

The Rules Of Perspective

Verlag

Jonathan Cape, London, UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

0224051873

ISBN-13

9780224051873

Einband

Hardcover

Auflage

1st Edition.

Druck

1st Impression

Zustand

Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags

Near Fine

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It is April 1945, and the small provincial town of Lohenfelde is about to be overrun by the Allied Third Army. Huddled in the vaults of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Museum to escape the artillery bombardment, are Heinrich Hoffer, the Acting Director, and his three colleagues: two women and one man, underground and under siege. Their petty rivalries and resentments surface quickly in this claustrophobic confinement, and the vaults become a stage for an intense psychological drama of secret histories and shared terror, as the four prepare themselves for their fate. Above the ground, picking through the rubble, is Corporal Neal Parry, who wishes he was back in West Virginia studying art and not dodging snipers in another hostile German town. When he finds an exquisite painting in what remains of the museum vaults, he is immediately reconnected with a lost world of beauty and order: the world of art. It is this small 18th-century oil - the appropriately titled Landscape with Ruins - that is the poignant link between the young American soldier and the four charred corpses he finds at the same time. As the narratives interweave, the story of the painting reveals the hidden story of Herr Hoffer and his three associates - and in doing so uncovers other, darker mysteries. In this thrilling re-creation of the last months of the Second World War, Adam Thorpe has written a narrative tour de force which vividly illuminates both the frailty of humanity and its indomitable spirit. Through his beautifully drawn characters, Thorpe allows us to see - just as they begin to see - the possibilities of art and love: perspective, in the face of war.

�ber die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton, appeared in 1992 and he has published two books of stories and ten further novels, most recently Missing Fay (2017), and six poetry collections.

www.adamthorpe.net

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