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"A pitch-perfect depiction of the reality of the artistic life." ―The Observer

"Excuse me?" She glanced back over her shoulder. He was looking at her with an expression of utter desolation, such as one rarely saw, an expression that literally stopped her in her tracks.

When painter Roderic Kennedy meets Julia Fitzpatrick, twenty years younger and also an artist, it seems as though a long spell of turbulance and misfortune in his life―including alcoholism and a broken marriage―has finally come to an end. But when Julia has a chance meeting with a desperately unhappy stranger, this brief yet powerful encounter sets in motion a chain of events that has dramatic consequences for all three.

Set in Ireland, Authenticity is a mesmerizing exploration of living the creative life as well as the cost of neglecting it. With a seamless tapestry of voices in various forms―self-reflection, memory, conversations―Madden offers a remarkable and moving novel that reaches from the bottom of the soul to the moment of inspiration.

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Deidre Madden is from Northern Ireland. Her novels include The Birds of Innocent Wood, Remembering Light and Stone, Nothing Is Black, and One by One in the Darkness.

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Julia Fitzgerald is a young Dublin artist distinguished by a thick nest of hair and an open manner. In her relationship with older, accomplished painter Roderic Kennedy, her youth contrasts with his world-weary suspicion, particularly of her latest acquaintance, the wealthy but regretful William Armstrong. Madden's clear, smooth prose explores each character's psyche, one by one, and readers will revel in learning of their fears and failures. Roderic's tale of alcoholism and estrangement from his wife is the most tangible of these, particularly enhanced by the finely wrought relationship with his ever-loyal brother, Dennis. In a novel about art, family, and the work that goes into creating and sustaining both, Madden fashions her characters as though painting the smallest details of a still life. If there is a flaw in the rendering, it's that the relationships--with the exception of the brothers'--run a bit cold. The action is mostly psychological, and although Madden does a superb job in conveying the solitude of making art, it's at the expense of conveying intimacy between her characters. Annie Tully
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  • PublisherGraywolf Press
  • Publication date2005
  • ISBN 10 155597421X
  • ISBN 13 9781555974213
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages384
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