Author: Tom Wolfe
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: word, painted
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-10-14
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312427581
ISBN-13: 9780312427580
In 1975, after having put radical chic and ’60s counterculture to the satirical torch, Tom Wolfe turned his attention to the contemporary art world. The patron saint (and resident imp) of New Journalism couldn’t have asked for a better subject. Here was a hotbed of pretension, nitwit theorizing, social climbing, and money, money, money--all Wolfe had to do was sharpen his tools and get to work. He did! Much of The Painted Word is a superb burlesque on that modern mating ritual whereby artists get to despise their middle-class audience and accommodate it at the same time. The painte
Author: Melanie Royal
Publisher: North Light Book
Keywords: illusions, painted
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-09-02
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 1581805489
ISBN-13: 9781581805482
Melanie Royals returns with more of the great techniques that made her first book, Trompe L’Oeil Murals Using Stencils, a must-have for anyone seeking to explore the intriguing possibilities of trompe l’oeil. Designed to be used by newcomers to the art and featuring sophisticated content that will captivate professionals, Painted Illusions includes: * Step-by-step projects using stencil techniques so easy to master that even novices can paint beautiful faux finishes and trompe l’oeil images * Inspiring photographs of completed projects and helpful hints for alternative applic
Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel, drum, painted
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0060515112
ISBN-13: 9780060515119
While appraising the estate of a New Hampshire family descended from a North Dakota Indian agent, Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose skin and cedar drum fashioned long ago by an Ojibwe artisan. And so begins an illuminating journey both backward and forward in time, following the strange passage of a powerful yet delicate instrument, and revealing the extraordinary lives it has touched and defined. Compelling and unforgettable, Louise Erdrich’s Painted Drum explores the often fraught relationship between mothers and daughters, the strength of family, and the intricate r
Author: Justen Denzel
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Keywords: cave, painted
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1996-04-16
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0698113772
ISBN-13: 9780698113770
"Set in the Cro-Magnon era, this story of Tao, who longs to be a cave artist, features a boy whose talent is viewed as a curse, making it impossible to be one of the Chosen Ones . . . a strong plot with a wealth of well-researched details."--Booklist. "A beautfully written story about a prehistoric boy."--Publishers Weekly.
Author: Craig Smith
Publisher: Myrmidon Book
Keywords: messiah, painted
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-04-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1905802153
ISBN-13: 9781905802159
Kate Kenyon, the wealthy young widow of an English aristocrat, has an addiction to mortal risk. She feeds it by engaging in the armed robbery with her accomplice and lover Ethan Brand. Their latest target is a priceless "Byzantine" icon. So far they have never had to shoot anyonethis time will be different. Retired CIA man Thomas Malloy is hired by a rich but ailing televangelist to courier his newly acquired painting from a Zurich bank to the local airport. Malloy anticipates trouble, but not the maelstrom of bullets and betrayal that threatens to pull him under. Sir Julian Corbeau is an int
Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Dell
Keywords: house, painted
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 044023722X
ISBN-13: 9780440237228
Ever since he published The Firm in 1991, John Grisham has remained the undisputed champ of the legal thriller. With A Painted House, however, he strikes out in a new direction. As the author is quick to note, this novel includes "not a single lawyer, dead or alive," and readers will search in vain for the kind of lowlife machinations that have been his stock-in-trade. Instead, Grisham has delivered a quieter, more contemplative story, set in rural Arkansas in 1952. It’s harvest time on the Chandler farm, and the family has hired a crew of migrant Mexicans and "hill people" to pick 80 ac
Author: Milorad Pavic
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: tea, painted, landscape
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 1991-10-01
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0679733442
ISBN-13: 9780679733447
By the author of the highly acclaimed literary bestseller "Dictionary of the Khazars", "Landscape Painted with Tea", Milorad Pavic’s second novel, is a tale of mysterious quest that is part modern Odyssey and part crossword puzzle. It begins with the story of a brilliant but failed architect in Belgrade and his search for his father, an officer who vanished in Greece during World War II. The truth about his fate--some of it set in motion 2,000 years ago and some of it by the Nazis-- is raveled in the history and secrets of Mount Athos, the most ancient of all monasteries, perched atop it
