What Manner of Man (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Edna Kenton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0332814726 ISBN 13: 9780332814728

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2017

Synopsis

A dark dive into passion, art, and the price of ambition.

In this novel, a troubled artist named Thayer and his wife Hilda confront a web of creativity, desire, and secrecy that bands them together and threatens to pull them apart. As a painting and a haunting studio become mirrors of their broken past, the couple faces the pull between artful attainment and personal truth.

Thayer’s studio becomes a stage for conflict and confession, where love, jealousy, and power clash against memory and guilt. The story follows artistic ambition, shifting loyalties, and the fragile line between inspiration and obsession, all set within a tense, intimate triangle.

• Explore a painter’s ambition and how it shapes his relationships.
• See tension rise as art and desire collide with fragile loyalties.
• Watch a marriage tested by secrets, memory, and a haunting studio space.
• Experience a narrative built on atmosphere, motive, and moral risk.

Ideal for readers who enjoy psychological drama and literary fiction grounded in creative struggle and moral complexity.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0332814726
• ISBN 13: 9780332814728
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304