Mr Gwyn
2011 • 186 pages

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"After celebrated author Jasper Gwyn suddenly and publicly announces that he will never write another book, he embarks on a strange new career path as a "copyist," holding thirty-day sittings in a meticulously appointed room and producing, at the end, brief but profoundly rich portraits in prose. The surprising, beautiful, and even frightening results are received with rapture by their subjects -- among them Gwyn's devoted assistant, Rebecca; a beautiful fabric importer; a landscape painter; Gwyn's own literary agent; two wealthy newlyweds; a tailor to the Queen; and a very dangerous nineteen-year-old."--Page 4 of cover.

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nithou
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March 23, 2017

L'autore offre uno stile affascinante, scorrevole e raffinato e affronta temi profondi dell'identità e della reinvenzione personale. I personaggi sono reali e tangibili. Tuttavia, la narrazione di per sé non mi ha preso pienamente, mancando forse di un impatto narrativo più incisivo. 

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