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Category : Floriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Flora and Sylva
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Category : Floriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Category : Floriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Flora and Sylva
Author: William Robinson
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Category : Floriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Category : Floriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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The Flora of the Alps
Author: Alfred William Bennett
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Public Opinion
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Category : World politics
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Category : World politics
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera
Author: James William Tutt
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Category : Lepidoptera
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Category : Lepidoptera
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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A Natural History of the British Butterflies
Author: James William Tutt
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Category : Butterflies
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Category : Butterflies
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Edwards's botanical register, or ornamental flower garden and shrubbery
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Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Languages : en
Pages : 422
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United States Plant Patents
Author: United States. Patent and Trademark Office
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Category : Plants, Cultivated
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Category : Plants, Cultivated
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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The New Cabinet Cyclopædia and Treasury of Knowledge
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Nightshade
Author: Annalena McAfee
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525658300
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A lean, taut novel about an artist—a painter—at the height of her career, about the art world, about love, fidelity, fame, betrayal, and the large choices and prices paid in the quest for art for art's sake. By the much-admired author of The Spoiler ("cutting wit and razor-sharp writing"—NYTBR; "a dark, sparkly gem of a book"—Christopher Buckley) and Hame ("I couldn't put it down"—Patrick McGrath). Eve Laing, celebrated artist, once the muse of legendary painter and "monstre sacré" Florian Kiš, is a photorealist painter of flowers at the peak of her career, with her work in international galleries and museums. Now Eve is embarking on her most ambitious work to date—seven enormous, elaborate panels of the world's deadliest plants. In psychic preparation, she has taken a wrecking ball to her opulent high-wire life, jettisoning her marriage for a beautiful young lover, a drifter half her age, who seems to share her single-minded artistic vision. As the novel opens out, Eve is on a late-night walk through London, setting out from her former family home in the well-heeled west of the city, back to her studio, a converted factory in the grittier east, where her recently completed masterpiece hangs and where a fatal reckoning may await. . . . Eve makes her way through the city and reflects on her life today and as it was years ago, and considers the large choices she has made and their repercussions. As she walks, she summons up her wild art college days in London; her New York years as a tyro artist; her vicious rivalry with her college roommate, now a celebrated figure on the international conceptual art scene whose full-blown success and recognition still infuriates and rankles Eve's sense of rightness with the world. And as she weighs what's been gained and what's been lost in pursuit of her art, a sense of dread settles over her, one she cannot shake, and as Nightshade moves to its dark, shocking end, it explores large questions--about ambition . . . artistic truth . . . betrayal . . . about bad people making good art . . . about the consequences of fame . . . and the devastating price of love.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525658300
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A lean, taut novel about an artist—a painter—at the height of her career, about the art world, about love, fidelity, fame, betrayal, and the large choices and prices paid in the quest for art for art's sake. By the much-admired author of The Spoiler ("cutting wit and razor-sharp writing"—NYTBR; "a dark, sparkly gem of a book"—Christopher Buckley) and Hame ("I couldn't put it down"—Patrick McGrath). Eve Laing, celebrated artist, once the muse of legendary painter and "monstre sacré" Florian Kiš, is a photorealist painter of flowers at the peak of her career, with her work in international galleries and museums. Now Eve is embarking on her most ambitious work to date—seven enormous, elaborate panels of the world's deadliest plants. In psychic preparation, she has taken a wrecking ball to her opulent high-wire life, jettisoning her marriage for a beautiful young lover, a drifter half her age, who seems to share her single-minded artistic vision. As the novel opens out, Eve is on a late-night walk through London, setting out from her former family home in the well-heeled west of the city, back to her studio, a converted factory in the grittier east, where her recently completed masterpiece hangs and where a fatal reckoning may await. . . . Eve makes her way through the city and reflects on her life today and as it was years ago, and considers the large choices she has made and their repercussions. As she walks, she summons up her wild art college days in London; her New York years as a tyro artist; her vicious rivalry with her college roommate, now a celebrated figure on the international conceptual art scene whose full-blown success and recognition still infuriates and rankles Eve's sense of rightness with the world. And as she weighs what's been gained and what's been lost in pursuit of her art, a sense of dread settles over her, one she cannot shake, and as Nightshade moves to its dark, shocking end, it explores large questions--about ambition . . . artistic truth . . . betrayal . . . about bad people making good art . . . about the consequences of fame . . . and the devastating price of love.