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The death of her beloved novelist uncle forces thirty-two-year-old Violet Clay, currently producing jacket paintings for Gothic romances, to reassess her vision of herself as an artist and the evaded truths of her life
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"Violet Clay is filled with wonderful language, wonderful people and wonderful insights.... It is about families, destinies, terrors and exaltations...I will not soon forget it, It is the work of one of the very best writers we have" -- Jonathan Yardley The Miami Herald
"I love Gail Godwin's women. They are strong, intelligent, funny, often self-mocking. They are tough on themselves... fall into predictable pits, but expect everything of themselves" -- Susan Shreve The Washington Post "A damned good, old-fashioned story...A modern portrait of an artist as a young woman...Remarkable." -- Chicago Tribune "Violet Clay shows Gail Godwin as a painterly writer and a very good novelist indeed." -- Harper's "Luminous...satisfying." -- The Boston Globe
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"I love Gail Godwin's women. They are strong, intelligent, funny, often self-mocking. They are tough on themselves... fall into predictable pits, but expect everything of themselves" -- Susan Shreve The Washington Post "A damned good, old-fashioned story...A modern portrait of an artist as a young woman...Remarkable." -- Chicago Tribune "Violet Clay shows Gail Godwin as a painterly writer and a very good novelist indeed." -- Harper's "Luminous...satisfying." -- The Boston Globe
Gail Godwin is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the bestselling author of twelve critically acclaimed novels, including A Mother and Two Daughters, Violet Clay, Father Melancholy's Daughter, Evensong, The Good Husband, Queen of the Underworld, and Unfinished Desires. She is also the author of The Making of a Writer: Journals, 1961-1963 and The Making of a Writer, Volume 2: Journals, 1963-1969, edited by Rob Neufeld. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts grants for both fiction and libretto writing, and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has written libretti for ten musical works with the composer Robert Starer. Gail Godwin lives in Woodstock, New York.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0140082204
- ISBN 13 9780140082203
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- Number of pages336
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