{"product_id":"the-underpainter-isbn-9780140269734","title":"The Underpainter","description":"In Rochester, New York, a seventy-five-year-old artist, Austin Fraser, is creating a new series of paintings recalling the details of his life and of the lives of those individuals who have affected him—his peculiar mother, a young Canadian soldier and china painter, a First World War nurse, the well-known American painter Rockwell Kent, and Sara, a waitress from the wilderness mining settlement of Silver Islet, Ontario, who became Austin's model and mistress. Spanning more than seven decades, from the turn of the century to the mid-seventies, \u003cb\u003eThe Underpainter—\u003c\/b\u003ein range, in the sheer power of its prose, and in its brilliant depiction of landscape and the geography of imagination—is \u003cb\u003eJane Urquhart\u003c\/b\u003e's most accomplished novel to date, with one of the most powerful climaxes in contemporary fiction.Jane Urquhart is the bestselling author of five internationally acclaimed, award-winning novels. She is also the author of a collection of short fiction, \u003cb\u003eStorm Glass\u003c\/b\u003e, and three books of poetry. She lives in Southwestern Ontario. She is the winner of numerous awards and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize for \u003cb\u003eThe Stone Carvers\u003c\/b\u003e and the International IMPAC award.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303389778149,"sku":"NP9780140269734","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140269734.jpg?v=1767741985","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-underpainter-isbn-9780140269734","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}