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Synopsis
A search throughout Europe for an unknown Renaissance painting of the Annunciation provides the focus for the intertwining destinies of Claire, an artist; her daughter Rachel, who has been raped; and Claude, an editor of art books.
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About the Author
David Plante taught at the Gorky Institute of Literature in Moscow.
From Kirkus Reviews
Issues of faith and will are at the center of this meditative tale set in London, New York, and Moscow--a striking work in the author's signature style. Tall, dark Claire is a lapsed Catholic and survivor of her husband's suicide. Somehow she is not surprised when, while she's off with her lover for a weekend in the English countryside, her 16-year-old daughter back in London is raped. Claire tries to atone for her neglect by cutting off her own personal life in service of her daughter, Rachel; when the girl learns she is pregnant and decides to keep the child, Claire quietly arranges for a leave of absence from school, sets aside her own academic research on the works of a minor (and suicidal) Italian Renaissance artist, and devotes herself to instilling in her broken daughter the will to go on. Meanwhile, in New York, a melancholy young editor of art books, caught in a meaningless affair with a willful young Englishwoman and grieving over the suicide of his soulful Russian-American cousin, seeks distraction in an unexpected transfer to London. There he meets Claire and Rachel and, sensing that his vague but urgent search for meaning melds uniquely with theirs, agrees to go with them to Russia to seek out a long-lost painting of the Annunciation by Claire's Italian artist. Carefully as the protagonists plan their journey, events in chaotic Russia soon overwhelm them--until the sight of the painting, which takes place in near-miraculous circumstances, offers solutions to their lives they that never could have reached on their own. Plante's (The Accident, 1991, etc.) characters may be mere ciphers for the more multidimensional philosophical issues he seeks to explore--guilt and redemption, faith versus rationalism, will versus despair--but his ruminations remain so stimulating that a certain lack of credibility is beside the point. Excellent intellectual escapism, and classic Plante. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherTicknor & Fields
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0395680913
- ISBN 13 9780395680919
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages346
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. The prolific Plante offers a cerebral, geographically evocative tour throug h London, New York, Lucca, and Moscow, following the merging paths of two u nhappy seekers. Art historian Claire O'Connel, never healed from her husban d's suicide, now suffers desperately from the rape of her wise young daught er, Rachel, and throws herself into her search for a lost painting. Meanwhi le, dark-visioned editor Claude Ricard, haunted by his Russian heritage and his unfulfilling sexual relationship, watches the deaths of the people he needs. Through their mutual new friend, the genial, failing Maurice Kuragin , Claire and Claude intertwine their stories in a moody Moscow denouement m arked by sadness and strangeness but also by the possibility of redemption. Seller Inventory # RWARE0000002273
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