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The Jewel (Paperback)
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The Jewel (Paperback)
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List price R284
Loot Price R233
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'Striking ... Hegarty has gifted us a vital book for our time.
Bathed in light, seeped in colour; it is full of the act of being
mortal - in a landscape that is - slowly, finally - finding what it
means to be human' IRISH TIMES. A surprising and ambitious work of
fiction centred on the art world, featuring an artist who has
become an art thief, an obsessive curator and a specialist in major
art thefts. Their stories intersect with the fate of a legendary
work by a tragic Victorian woman artist who painted the picture as
a kind of funeral dress, using the notoriously fragile distemper
technique. At the heart of this moving and unusual novel is a
strange painting by a woman who committed suicide rather than live
with neglect and pain. Her final glowingly beautiful work was
painted with a technique more usual for posters and banners, and
not designed to last. She intended it as her shroud. It hangs in a
Dublin gallery, and it is desired by a collector who is willing to
pay to have it stolen. The thief is a disillusioned, corrupted
London artist coping with tragic loss. The curator of the painting
is a lonely gallerist whose life centres on her work. And the man
charged with recovering the stolen painting is a gay man trapped in
an abusive relationship. The lives of these three damaged people,
each evoked with a calm, moving sympathy reminiscent of Michael
Cunningham or David Park, come together around the hauntingly
strange Victorian painting. Set in London, Dublin, Northern Ireland
and various European capitals, The Jewel is a major new novel from
an Irish writer coming into his own. 'Irish author Neil Hegarty
proves again that he is one to watch ... Hegarty writes with sharp
intelligence, which coupled with his strong storytelling and
well-defined characters, results in a gripping plot that also
offers an affecting insight into how artifice permeates our lives'
OBSERVER. 'Neil Hegarty's rich and intriguing second novel starts
off in the realm of Victorian pastiche but ends up as a gripping
present-day heist plot ... [Hegarty] gives himself lots to juggle
but manages with aplomb, setting the wounded trio at the book's
heart on a grimly compelling collision course' DAILY MAIL.
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