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A Curious Earth

A Curious Earth

Woodward, Gerard

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 0393330974
ISBN13: 9780393330977
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Mar 1 2008
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.15
Language: English
Left with an empty house after the death of his wife, Aldous Jones is tempted to spend the whole day sitting in his chair in the kitchen. But with admirable determination he resumes old pastimes until, one day, wandering London, he is surprised to find a painting that holds him completely in its spell. Rembrandt's portrait of his housekeeper-turned-mistress, Hendrijcke Stoffels, awakens Jones's desire for a new life, a new woman, sex, and companionship. It leads him to Belgium to stay with his bohemian son, to evening language classes, and through a series of slightly misguided relationships until eventually he meets his Hendrijcke. As The Guardian writes, this work is brave, funny, and beautifully written, as perceptive about Rembrandt and Shakespeare as it is about evening classes, potato tubers sprouting in neglected cupboards and the accumulated detritus of family life.

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