The Sitters (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A luminous Australian novella shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, "The Sitters" presents the first-person account of an elderly English-born portrait painter living in Canberra who, after years of emotional and creative paralysis, meets an Australian academic woman and finds himself compelled to paint her, the charged ambiguity between painter and subject drawing both characters into an examination of memory, displacement, and the act of seeing, set against the quietly lyrical landscape of the Araluen Valley in New South Wales.
Author: Alex Miller
Format: Paperback
Published: 1995, Viking
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A luminous Australian novella shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, "The Sitters" presents the first-person account of an elderly English-born portrait painter living in Canberra who, after years of emotional and creative paralysis, meets an Australian academic woman and finds himself compelled to paint her, the charged ambiguity between painter and subject drawing both characters into an examination of memory, displacement, and the act of seeing, set against the quietly lyrical landscape of the Araluen Valley in New South Wales.