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Rose Tremain has long been one of the most vigorous and imaginative of novelists; her sweeping narratives (set against the most vividly realised of canvases) have made her books as dramatic and assured as anything being written today. The Colour represents a further burnishing of her considerable talents; it is a powerful drama of greed and aspiration set in the New Zealand Gold Rush of the mid-19th Century.
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Tremain's protagonists are Harriet and Joseph Baxter, who (along with Joseph's mother) leave England for the promise of the new world that New Zealand represents. Needless to say, their relocation comes with many attendant (and nigh-insoluble) problems. But their struggle against the land continues apace until Joseph discovers gold in a nearby creek and ill-advisedly conceals the find from his mother and his wife. Gold fever takes an all-consuming grip upon him, and he leaves the family-owned farm to traverse the gold fields of the Southern Alps. There he will find a strange fate: one that affects those he has left behind as well as him.
As a study of human nature in extremis, this could well be Tremain’s most impressive book. Lacking the elegant stylishness of Restoration, The Colour grants us a fastidiously rendered picture of life lived at the sharp edge. And while her characters are confronted with terrifying decisions that few of us are ever likely to encounter, Tremain’s narrative gifts make it easy to identify with the decisions (both wise and catastrophic) that her characters take. The sense of period is forcefully conveyed, and while this is not as ingratiating a read as such earlier Tremain books as The Swimming Pool Season, her new level of ambition makes it perhaps the author’s most important book yet. --Barry Forshaw
"Tremain is a magnificent storyteller with an enormous story to tell" (Independent on Sunday)
"This is a writer whose breadth of imagination and supple prose transcend the genre: she is one of the finest writers in England" (Daily Telegraph)
"Tremain has produced her own wondrous piece of gold" (Scotsman)
"A fabulous work, bravely imaginative, deeply moving, surprising, invigorating and satisfying" (Independent)
"This is a beautifully crafted book - at once a gripping adventure story and a compelling portrayal of human emotion at its bravest and its most vulnerable" (Economist)
"This is a writer whose breadth of imagination and supple prose transcend the genre: she is one of the finest writers in England" (Daily Telegraph)
"Tremain has produced her own wondrous piece of gold" (Scotsman)
"A fabulous work, bravely imaginative, deeply moving, surprising, invigorating and satisfying" (Independent)
"This is a beautifully crafted book - at once a gripping adventure story and a compelling portrayal of human emotion at its bravest and its most vulnerable" (Economist)
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0701174307
- ISBN 13 9780701174309
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- Number of pages384
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Book Description Paperback. Airport/SA/ANZ ed. ?Deeply moving, surprising, invigorating and satisfying.? ? Independent. In NZ in 2000, Rose Tremain checked out the scenery and the museums. Then she went further than most tourists, writing a novel inspired by what she?d seen. The Colour is a fabulous historical novel set against the background of the gold rush in New Zealand in the mid-19th century. "The colour" is miners' slang for gold. Joseph and Harriet Blackstone, along with Joseph's mother Lillian, emigrate from England in search of new beginnings and prosperity in New Zealand. But the harsh land near Christchurch where they settle threatens to destroy them almost before they begin. When Joseph finds gold in the creek, he guiltily hides the discovery from his wife and mother and is seized by a rapturous obsession with the voluptuous riches awaiting him deep in the earth. Abandoning his farm and family, he sets off alone for the new gold-fields over the Southern Alps, a moral wilderness where many others, under the seductive dreams of 'the colour', are violently rushing to their destinies. Harriet bravely decides to pursue her own journey towards an uncertain future. But nothing has prepared her for what happens when she too arrives at the gold-diggings. Amid squalor and confusion, amid burning heat and icy flood, she comes face to face with the true cost of desire. Beautifully written, hauntingly evocative and by turns both moving and terrifying, The Colour is the story of a quest for the impossible, an attempt to mine the complexities of love and in the process discover what it is that makes men and women happy. This is a used book in good condition, meaning that it shows signs of wear but has no major defects.Most of our images are sourced automatically, so the book cover shown might be different to the edition we have in stock. Seller Inventory # 18562133
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