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The Alignment
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $12.99
ISBN13: 9781919305271
Publisher: Circle Line Press
Published: Apr 15 2026
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.23 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Toby Hale has built his paintings on restraint. Rooms held in balance. Light measured. Surfaces controlled. Yet something in the work has grown still.
An encounter in London draws him to New York, where a friend questions the limits of his discipline. In the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum and MoMA, two opposing approaches to structure reveal what his precision has maintained and what it has avoided.
Back in his studio, Toby undertakes an act of removal. Seventeen canvases are wiped back to ground. The cleared space offers no certainty. Only condition.
The novel follows him across cities and back again as he confronts the distance between control and consequence.
It traces a movement not towards reinvention, but towards alignment.
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