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Published on: 2013-06-04
Released on: 2013-06-04
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Alternating between nineteenth-century England and present-day New York, this is the story of renowned British painter J. M. W. Turner and his circle of patrons and lovers. It is also the story of Henry Leiden, a middle-aged family man with a troubled marriage and a dead-end job, who finds his life transformed by his discovery of Turner’s The Center of the World, a mesmerizing and unsettling painting of Helen of Troy that was thought to have been lost forever. This painting has such devastating erotic power that it was kept hidden for almost two centuries, and was even said to have been destroyed...until Henry stumbles upon it in a secret compartment at his summer home in the Adirondacks. Though he knows it is an object of immense value, the thought of parting with it is unbearable: Henry is transfixed by its revelation of a whole other world, one of transcendent light, joy, and possibility. Back in the nineteenth century, Turner struggles to create The Center of the World, his greatest painting, but a painting unlike anything he (or anyone else) has ever attempted. We meet his patron, Lord Egremont, an aristocrat in whose palatial home Turner talks freely about his art and his beliefs. We also meet Elizabeth Spencer, Egremont’s mistress and Turner’s muse, the model for his Helen. Meanwhile, in the present, Henry is relentlessly trailed by an unscrupulous art dealer determined to get his hands on the painting at any cost. Filled with sex, beauty, and love (of all kinds), this richly textured novel explores the intersection between art and eroticism. World Book Online - Super Home Page Online Tutorial Contact and Support Terms & Conditions Privacy Policy Training Guide 2017 World Book Inc. All rights reserved. Positive Psychology Center Welcome. The mission of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania is to promote research training education and the dissemination of ... Chambers StreetWorld Trade Center/Park Place (New York ... Chambers StreetWorld Trade Center/Park Place is a New York City Subway station complex on the IND Eighth Avenue Line and IRT BroadwaySeventh Avenue Line. Education World: Connecting educators to what works Education World explores what's truly behind our field's retention issues. Home - National Constitution Center Our Mission. The National Constitution Center inspires active citizenship as the only place where people across America and around the world can come together to ... Home World Trade Center The Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center will serve as a Vital Cultural Hub in Lower Manhattan. Watch Video Read Press Release National Data Buoy Center The National Data Buoy Center's home page. The premier source of meteorological and oceanographic measurements for the marine environment. U.S. National Whitewater Center U.S. National Whitewater Center 5000 Whitewater Center Parkway Charlotte NC 28214 704.391.3900 info@usnwc.org Welcome to Network World.com US chipmaker plans new factory in China; Are companies doing enough on the IoT security front? Intel demotes PCs giving datacenter chips first crack at new technologies Pew Research Center Nonpartisan non-advocacy public ... About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.
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