Books by Jane Urquhart and Complete Book Reviews

Jane Urquhart, Author . Viking $25.95 (392p) ISBN 978-0-670-03044-6
The bell-llike clarity of its prose initially masks the eloquent pathos of this Canadian bestseller by Urquhart (The Underpainter), which examines WWI through the experiences of siblings Klara Becker, whose first love, Eamon, enlists and never...
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Jane Urquhart, Author . MacAdam/Cage $25 (371p) ISBN 978-1-59692-170-2
Urquhart's passion for the past (The Stone Carvers ) and the land (The Underpainters , winner of the Governor General's Award in Canada) are at full poetic play in this intricate story of love, loss and memory. Set in present-day Toronto and
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Jane Urquhart, Author David R. Godine Publisher $22.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-87923-895-7
Urquhart's second novel (after The Whirlpool ) is a piercingly beautiful tale of obsession, adultery, murder, ghosts and the afterlife, told in sensuous prose. Ann Frear, an Emily Bronte scholar at a Toronto university, has an affair with married...
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Jane Urquhart, Author David R. Godine Publisher $18.95 (214p) ISBN 978-0-87923-806-3
In her debut novel, Canadian poet Urquhart finds that the landscape and society on the Canadian side of late-19th-century Niagara Falls furnishes ample metaphor for an exploration of themes of obsession, withdrawal and the relationship of...
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Jane Urquhart, Author Viking Books $22.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-670-87726-3
Justly praisedfor her three previous novels, Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and Trillium Award winner (for Away) Urquhart here offers a brilliantly imagined exploration of an artist's personality and the world in which he lives. Narrator Austin...
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Jane Urquhart, Author Viking Books $21.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-670-85504-9
The author of the award-winning memoir All but the Waltz here returns to familiar territory to examine the lives of her first-generation Montana-born ancestors. Her parents, born in the early 1900s, remained on their Montana ranch, proudly...
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Jane Urquhart. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-22219-2
Urquhart (Sanctuary Line) delivers an impressionistic and forlorn postwar romance. Framed by the career of an ingenious real-life artist named Kenneth, the novel emulates an actual mural of his, Gander Airport’s Flight and Its Allegories. But only...
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