Ebook {Epub PDF} Keeping the World Away: A Novel by Margaret Forster

'Keeping The World Away' is a novel about a painting and the women whose lives it touches, original and a fabulous read, a perfect example of why I have been enjoying the novels of Margaret Forster since the late nineteen sixties. This is not an exaggeration, I find her work just as appealing now as I did all those years ago/5(63). After reading 'Keeping the World Away' I couldn't stop thinking about it. The novel is a fictional account of the travels of an actual painting by Gwen John and what it means to the lives it touches. The small canvas, a still life of a corner of the artist's attic studio is painted for her lover Rodin, the notorious sculptor for whom she models, to show him her true inner self/5(). All of whom long for a tranquil golden place such as the one depicted in the painting, a haven where they can “keep the world away.” Praise for Keeping the World Away: “Evocative an apparently simple yet potent work of art.” –The New York Times Book Review “Highly recommended/5(2).

Keeping the World Away by Margaret Forster, , available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. One small painting, a still life of a corner of an attic room, is the thread that ties this moving novel together." -Library Journal (starred review) "It is the painting's power to evoke. Title: Keeping the World Away Author(s): Margaret Forster, Read by Susan Jameson ISBN: / (UK edition) Publisher: Chivers Audiobooks Title: Keeping the World Away: A Novel Author(s): Margaret Forster Publisher: Ballantine Books Availability: Amazon. In Keeping the World Away Margaret Forster has taken the fertile subject of a work of art and its place in the psyche of the artist, and what it may The novel's focus is the historic problem posed for women by the stringencies of art and the sacrifice of other potential, but competing, goods which the.

Compare book prices from over , booksellers. Find Keeping the World Away () by Forster, Margaret. In Margaret Forster’s new novel, a small painting of an attic room is lost, sold, inherited, given away and stolen. One owner nearly burns the canvas; another is tempted to punch a fist through it. Synopsis. Expand/Collapse Synopsis. Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over This engrossing, beautifully crafted novel follows the fictional adventures, over a hundred years, of an early 20th-century painting and the women whose lives it touches. It opens with bold, passionate Gwen, struggling to be an artist, leaving for Paris where she becomes Rodin's lover and paints a small, intimate picture of a quiet corner of her attic room.